F I N A L L Y...I wanna be a Princess..

This all started on Sat. I was on the computer when my baby Eva Gabrielle (Ava Gabriella) walked into my office and announced...
"Mamma... I want to be a Princess..."
I stopped dead in my tracks not believing my ears... "What, did you say?" " I wanna be a Princess..." she replied... (in English.... no less)

Warm tears filled my eyes... as I called to my husband... " Honey... did you hear that? She wants to be a P-R-I-N-C-E-S-S-..." It felt like that scene from Helen Keller... the first time she says
W-A- T- E- R...
I don't think my husband has seen me move so fast in years....
Before my daughter could say "Spiderman" or "Pirate" I was jumping up the stairs 2 at a time... to get my "SPECIAL BOX..." I guess you could call it my "HOPE Chest" filled with everything...good, & sweet, and princessessy... Wands, shoes, dresses.... I have been waiting for this moment for ... F O R E V E R !

Now don't get me wrong... I love "THE BOY"... but... *sigh*... I have wanted a daughter for as long as I can remember.... & if she had long beautiful hair so much the better....
From the moment I found out I was having a girl... I started making preparations... The nursery was finished 6 months along... While in Paris...My mother, sister & I choose the perfect outfit she would be coming home in ... the bows & baubles and everything else "girly" was waiting Princess Eva's Arrival.

The child would have had a bow on her head the moment she was born, had I not been rushed into an emergency C-section & my husband had not forgotten it in midst of all of the chaos... (you think I jest?....) Eva's FIRST picture... 12 hours old..

Things were fine & dandy for the first year..... I had my baby doll... to take out & dress up as I pleased... When she turned 2 things suddenly took a turn for the worst.... My Princess no longer wanted to be a Girl... never mind Princess.... She wanted to be a B O Y.... My hopes were dashed... So for the past 2 years I have bit my lip & pretended like playing Spiderman was fun... & sure lets do your new room in BLUE & spiders... sounds like a great idea....
What I had hoped for...











What I got....

Hoped for.. what I got...

until last Saturday.... I GOT MY PRINCESS BACK...I have no idea what has happened... but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth...

She has had a baby doll glued to her hip... & has insisted in wearing her Princess Clothes everywhere.

My son has been HORRIFIED that I am allowing here to wear the Princess dress all over town... this.. coming from the kid dressed as Buzz Lightyear, cowboy or Pirate for the first 5 years of his life.
I am just enjoying every min.of this" girliness". It may all end tomorrow...
Today is her class party at pre school.... this morning she told me she was going to be a ballerina... I would see her dance.... thus wearing a tutu to school.... (reading over the program... She is the baby bear from Goldilocks... & a pirate in another skit...)
I gave her teacher a heads up... just in case Eva is determined to dance instead of being a Pirate...Oh... I HOPE they let her be a little ballerina with the other girls... I'm keeping my fingers crossed!