petticoat junction

The girliest girl...ever.

And although I love all of the twirls, pink, lipgloss, eyelash batting,

singing, dancing, bowing...

it can be exhausting.

Lucy's latest thing is she "thinks" she will only wear skirts, dresses or tutus.

This has caused some major wardrobe arguments and I shudder to

think what will happen when she's...oh I don't know SIX...because at three this little girl has her mind made up.

On Memorial Day I was so excited for madras shorts and yellow Chuck's but Lucy

went ballistic and sobbed "this is a boy's outfit - these are boy shoes!"

I really, really don't know where she got this thing about "boys" but she's using it for everything

"only boys sit in high chairs", "only boys take naps."

After a little talk (and a bribe to wear her Cinderella dress later) she

found a way to wear her horrendous outfit.

This may be coming across as obnoxious but I promise it's not

(well, sometimes for me it is).

Lucy is the sweetest girl ever and just wants to live everyday as a princess.

29 times a day she asks for lipgloss.

I can no longer plop her in a chair to watch cartoons at Gymboree -

she has to be picking out dresses to try on.

She asks if we can go to lunch with Cinderella.

She needs a bow that "matches".

Maybe if I was this girly I would get it - but I'm not

and I really have to be patient and let her be who she is -

a real life Fancy Nancy.

Today was Lucy's last dance class of the year and it was emotional for both of us.

I'm really going to have to get creative to entertain her this summer because a couple weeks of

swimming probably won't cut it.

Dance class has been so fun for both of us. We couldn't have found a better class or teacher.

Miss Julie is a pure delight for Lucy (much more girly than me).

She has learned so much and has been able to spin and twirl to her heart's delight.

Lucy will start classes again in the fall but today was the last class that I got to sit in on.

Once she's in the next class we drop off the girls and pick them up an hour later -

all on her own.

I'm sad I'll miss her looking at herself in the mirror, watching her giggle with her

friends and running to me for a hug at the end of a dance.

But she's a big girl and she'll do just fine.

And even though I'll sob when I leave I'll be okay too.

Thankfully we have a full summer before we have to deal with that

(and possibly preschool - but that's another thing).

This was the face I got when I told her she couldn't wear her pink tutu and her new

costume tutu at the same time...I'm mean.

Lucy's recital is this Saturday and we're beyond excited. All songs are from the new

Princess and the Frog movie and the costume for Lucy's group are amazing!

Stay tuned for that...

yes, she's a princess but we wouldn't have her any other way.