Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo

I was amazed at how many different spellings of that there are. I got this one off a Disney VHS case, so it must be close to right. Hazel has been singing this song for three days. At the end of the phrase, she presses the button on her Fairy Godmother wand and transforms something, like me, into a carriage. She asks me to try on her glass slipper every fifteen minutes or so and then wants me to be the Grand Duke and see if the slipper fits her. When it fits, she throws her arms around me, because she's so happy she gets to marry the prince. She even threw a shoe across the room and said it shattered into a thousand pieces and then wants to walk around in only one shoe, because the other one is broken. I talked her into wearing her black ballet slippers instead, showing her that in the book, Cinderella wears similar ones for her everyday shoes. It's hard to get that dress off quickly, when we're on the way to the potty.
Potty training is going pretty well. She's certainly got it down when we're home and she's not resting or sleeping. We'll see if she's still so enthusiastic when the M&Ms run out tomorrow and she only gets a sticker. We've got new Dora stickers to use tomorrow, though, so that may help.
Today we had a birthday party for her doll Drowsy - one of many. She decided this skirt was a great party hat, so here's my flower child. (Just wish the pictures hadn't been blurry).
Also bedecked with jewelry - prettied up for the party. She's showing me her Cinderella necklace.
She has a cute smile, when you can see it behind the Bink. I'm not sure when we'll tackle that. The Binky Fairy came a year ago, to take the binkies to little babies who didn't have any, but I only lasted about 30 hours before I folded so that she could fall asleep. Maybe she'll come again after we're done potty training.

I'm having trouble finding the next set of puzzles for her. She's been doing the 24 piece jigsaw puzzles for a year, and the next easiest to find have 100 pieces - that's too big of a jump. This one from the thrift store has 44 pieces.

3 comments:

Rosie Banach said...

She's an absolute doll!

Deb said...

My mom used M&M's with me, and I think that is why I am a chocoholic. :) The other thing that worked with my kids was picking out the big kid underwear that they wanted, but they only got it when they kept the others dry.

She is a cutey. Maybe we'll get to meet her someday.

Lynne said...

Shalimar, you are such a fun mom! I love how you join in all Hazel's pretending games.