How does it happen? How do young girls decide they like princesses? I mean, I know, media, Disney, but we’ve been trying to limit those influences. Jade has seen 4 movies so far in her 4 years of life: Incredibles, Incredibles 2, Monsters Inc, and Moana. She doesn’t watch any tv or videos on youtube. We’ve never purchased any pink clothes for her.
And, she is pretty obsessed with princesses. It must be a phase, right? I knew she would love a fancy dress for Christmas, so her present was to pick out a dress. While we were in the dress store, she said, “I love love love this dress. I love it more than I love you, momma.”
Now she asks me all the time, “momma, can I wear my you-know-what?”
She even wears dresses to bed (but not the unicorn one).
Her favorite color is pink. The other day she asked me, “Momma, why didn’t you get me a pink bike?”
She also told me she wanted me to pierce my ears. Ha! She has noticed that all the other girls in her class have pierced ears, and asked me why she doesn’t.
In this video she is wearing the “fairy” outfit her Po Po (my mom) made her. It has her name in pink sequins on the front.
She also climbs the avocado tree, loves hiking, talks a mile a minute in Spanish or English, loves making art, loves listening to Jack & Annie books, and has recently started riding her bike home from school. And she is very good at expressing her feelings. She’ll say, “I’m sad” if you raise your voice or get frustrated with her. My response, depending on the time of day (I have less patience later in the day), is sometimes, “well, I’m annoyed”.
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