Our youngest is somewhat of a style iconoclast. Given that she wears a lot of puffy, flouncy, ruffled dresses (often more than one at the same time), many people will approach her and ask if she's a princess. This will make her angry, for these people have clearly missed the the magic wand (a stick with pieces of string tied to it), the wings (another dress, tied over her shoulders), the magic charms (dora bracelets and hair clips) and fairy belts (pieces of ribbon tied around waist). Imperiousness and natural hauteur aside, he is a fairy, and occassionally a ballerina, but she is not a princess.
There are several advantages to being the parent of a fairy, specifically:
1) Fairies don't wear diapers
2) Fairies don't sleep in cribs
3) Fairies eat vegetables.
However, there are some downsides:
1) Fairies, apparently, also don't wear socks or t-shirts. Only dresses. And they are super picky about the underwear that they do wear.
2) Fairies don't wear pajamas either. They wear a lot of dresses to bed, and when they wake up at 4 a.m. and need to pee, their fathers have to act the part of valet and get them out of (and back into) their regalia.
3) Fairies think that they should have bunk beds, just like their brothers, and get kind of complainy when the bunk bed they want doesn't magically appear.
4) Fairies don't really eat their vegetables, they mostly just try to throw their broccoli on the floor. But they really, really want candy.
In the balance, being the father of a fairy is actually pretty great - magical even. And for Aoife's 3rd birthday, Lisa made what was determined to be a fairy ballerina cake. Aoife liked it so much that she's declared that she will be having at least two more birthdays this year, and that her brothers will have none. Sounds kind of like a princessy thing to say, but don't tell her I said that.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Most definitely not a princess
Our youngest is somewhat of a style iconoclast. Given that she wears a lot of puffy, flouncy, ruffled dresses (often more than one at the same time), many people will approach her and ask if she's a princess. This will make her angry, for these people have clearly missed the the magic wand (a stick with pieces of string tied to it), the wings (another dress, tied over her shoulders), the magic charms (dora bracelets and hair clips) and fairy belts (pieces of ribbon tied around waist). Imperiousness and natural hauteur aside, he is a fairy, and occassionally a ballerina, but she is not a princess.
There are several advantages to being the parent of a fairy, specifically:
1) Fairies don't wear diapers
2) Fairies don't sleep in cribs
3) Fairies eat vegetables.
However, there are some downsides:
1) Fairies, apparently, also don't wear socks or t-shirts. Only dresses. And they are super picky about the underwear that they do wear.
2) Fairies don't wear pajamas either. They wear a lot of dresses to bed, and when they wake up at 4 a.m. and need to pee, their fathers have to act the part of valet and get them out of (and back into) their regalia.
3) Fairies think that they should have bunk beds, just like their brothers, and get kind of complainy when the bunk bed they want doesn't magically appear.
4) Fairies don't really eat their vegetables, they mostly just try to throw their broccoli on the floor. But they really, really want candy.
In the balance, being the father of a fairy is actually pretty great - magical even. And for Aoife's 3rd birthday, Lisa made what was determined to be a fairy ballerina cake. Aoife liked it so much that she's declared that she will be having at least two more birthdays this year, and that her brothers will have none. Sounds kind of like a princessy thing to say, but don't tell her I said that.
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