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[mommydama]

Maria made a birthday list today. Does this list say it all about this kid or what?

iPod/mp3 player, pink
speakers/dock
Hannah Montana; One In A Million movie
Barbie movies: Mariposa, Island Princess, Mermaidia
Groovy girls
My Little Ponies
Tooth fairy bag
Matching girl/doll outfits for Josephina (her American Girl doll)
Only Hearts Club dolls
Barbie/Disney Princess doll dresses
Body glitter, lip gloss, fingernail polish
Disney Prince dolls (she discovered these at the Disney Store recently), specifically the Beast if available.

I think this kid needs to branch out a bit. All of life is about pink and princesses and doll play. I cannot get her interested in ANYTHING else. Talk about a one track mind. *sigh*

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[moobabe.livejournal.com]

You've read The Paper Bag Princess, right? (Well, I'm pretty sure YOU have, but to the girlies?) Hannah and I also recently read Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman, in which Grace wonders what the heck a princess does, anyway, and decided that she would rather be the kind of princess who had adventures.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

See this is Zoe all over. She is very much a princess who has adventures. But Maria? Not so much. She is all about the glam and glitz and getting dressed up and being romanced by a prince and fairytale nonsense. I mean that is ALL it is for her. She adores Hannah Montana because to Maria, she is a modern day princess. Luci adores her because she is enamored of the idea of singing and dancing on a stage. Maria adores her because she gets to wear awesome clothes and makeup and jewelry and boys like her. Seriously! This is what is important to Maria. I need to get over my annoyance about it, because she has come by it completely and utterly naturally. This child didn't watch ANY TV for the first three years of her life and then was so sheltered from it thereafter that she didn't know what a commercial was until she was six. And I've read them every kind of book imaginable. So she has been exposed to it all. This is just who she is.....

And yes to the Paper Bag Princess. Zoe loves that book. I'll have to look at Princess Grace. We recently fell in love with the book Princess are Not Quitters and all three of them LOVE that one. It is about Princesses who are bored being Princesses and trade places with servants and discover how awful life is for the servants and decide to even things out a bit. It is very cute.

[moobabe.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I will definitely have to get Princess are Not Quitters for Hannah. It sounds right up her alley. :)

We're still looking for a (little kids') biography of a princess who is still alive. Maybe someday Hannah will just write one. Heh.

[justamy.livejournal.com]

Focus on The Little Princess! Maybe she'll become interested in helping others. (Not that I am assuming she doesn't already...) I just love the idea of her being a Princess not because she was born into royalty but because she ACTS like a princess....and not the diva type...the benevolent type. :)

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

She loves that story. We have not read the full book yet, but have read the original story that was lengthened into the book several times, Sara Crewe. And she's watched the movie a million times. We talk CONSTANTLY about how beauty is something you DO not something in your skin. She seems to get it.

[lil-irish-lass.livejournal.com]

I like this series: http://www.google.com/products?q=god's+little+princess&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1

We have the companion devotional Bible. it's pretty good.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Link is broken. I'm intrigued though, what is it?

[lil-irish-lass.livejournal.com]

Gigi, God's Princess by Sheila Walsh

[librissimma.livejournal.com]

That was all I was interested in for all of my elementary years, so you can know that she will turn out ok. Although, I am still pretty focused and girly in my interests.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

I keep reminding myself that a LOT of little girls who go this route turn out to be domestic gurus. I've met many of them. Maria is extremely organized, she enjoys doing domestic chores and even when she doesn't she is much more focused on getting them done and enjoys the sense of accomplishment more than either of her sisters ever have. She is really interested in domestic arts like sewing, knitting, cooking, decorating and other cool stuff. I just worry about her getting too into the "romance" aspect of the princess world and ending up thinking her value is in how she looks. She already worries about that way too much, in my humble opinion. I picked up a card she had made for one of her soccer coaches (she made thank you cards for all three of them WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE, much less my encouragement!) and in tiny letters in the corner she had writtend, "Just so you know, I have a crush on you." O_o

[librissimma.livejournal.com]

That is so cute and so very honest. I probably would have done the same thing at that age. I think that is why I so enjoyed Maria's company, she seems most like me as a little girl. It was refreshing.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

She is much more organized and motivated and much more high energy than I am, but I recognize a lot of myself in her too. Her need to confess and have "deep" emotional conversations, her desire to be noticed and her subsequent discomfort when she is, her love of fantasy and romance, her pull toward small children and her caretaking instincts, her CONSTANT TALKING ....oh so many things. Kristin and I have often said it is the kid most like us in our own families that we have the most difficulty with. They are the ones we recognize and we see their weaknesses magnified by our recognition. It is a struggle...but a joy too.

[librissimma.livejournal.com]

I think we also struggle with seeing how their weaknesses can hinder them and we want to protect them from that pain.