Princess Meltdown: A story in pictures
As a special treat, we stopped into a Great Amercian Cookie Company and got Baby A and, ahem, ourselves cookies. There was a giant floor poster depicting the company's partnership with Disney Princess characters, which are appearing on mini-buckets and kids' cups. The poster looked a lot like this, only even more enticing, if you can IMAGINE that:
[image thanks to the Great American Cookies site]
Do you know what that does to a kid who spends her days dressing like this? And rearranging furniture to build "carriages" to take herself to "the grand ball" where she can "find her prince and fall in love and get married"? * mom shakes fist angrily at Disney *
Oh YES YOU DO KNOW, if you've ever raised a two- or three-year-old.
So even though she got a cookie embedded with yummy colored chocolate drops (which we'd already handed her before she spotted the poster), do you know what kind of shape she was in when we left the store? This kind of shape:
In all fairness, that picture was taken a few weeks ago, but you get the idea.
Good thing there was a display of ginormous pumpkins nearby to distract her from her decidedly un-princess-like breakdown.
Comments
Oh wow, do I KNOW the feeling! I have a 4 year old *princess* =)
Posted by: Unbalanced Libra | October 16, 2007 09:58 AM
You mean it's going to last through age four, too?
Oh, well, that's okay. The imagination part of it is pretty cool.
Right now, she's making us trade off the roles of Dorothy and Good Witch Glinda. It's all pretty cute, isn't it?
- L
Posted by: QsMama / Lea | October 17, 2007 03:48 PM
Oh, I wish I could say that they outgrow it, but my Princess is 5 and the obsession is still going strong.
In fact, "Princess" is the nickname I use for her on my blog ;)
Good luck!
Posted by: MommyCosm | October 18, 2007 10:02 AM
Oh yes, I know exactly what you mean as I go through this with my almost two year old twins practically, daily.
Thanks for the reminder!
LOL
Posted by: Monica | October 21, 2007 04:57 PM