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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*

Comments

[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.