princesses all around

k has spent the last two months living in her dresses... sometimes a slip (you know, the ones with the layers and layers of ruffles that looks like a tutu?)  she has been enthralled with being a princess.  at least 10 times everyday i hear something about her pretty dress and her tights and her dancing shoes.  the time has come for dress up and princesses and unicorns and nice princes.

my girl is a real kid!  do you ever have those moments when you look at your child, who was once your baby, and realize, wow - you're a kid?!  it's happening more and more around here.

for her birthday, k got a trunk full of dress up paraphernalia.  i made her 4 dresses and her grandma c (husbands mom.... the whole grandma c thing will never work... all grandmas are c's) got her a bunch of accessories from shoes to crowns to wigs.  she is loving it.  we had to make it clear, early on, that these things were to be worn at home, never to be worn at church.  i thought we'd have a problem with that, but so far, so good.

it's been really fun to get on the floor with her and don a tiara with jewels and rapunzel hair.  she got a whole new library of princess books from great-grandma c and we've been reading all about princesses and other fairy tales.  and grandma c (my mom) got her a couple of sets of blocks to build with.  what do you think k has been constructing this week?  castles for the royals to live in, of course. 

princess k is eating it up!