Indoctrination
We have recently come into a little family togetherness time with some of my immediate family members. It doesn’t happen all that often, so we must take advantage of it while it happens. And let me just say that it feels GOOD. There are lots of late-night games of Ticket to Ride, Guillotine, Rook, Wizard, and just other general silliness. We really have a great time together. There is also the interesting sight of my two-year-old Bean as the bridge between almost four-year-old Laylee, and one and a half year old Magoo. Bean gets the best of both worlds, really. With Magoo she gets to lead out in fun games like “Let’s log-roll all over each other and the floor.” She also enjoys a game where both of them fall down on the floor, then they giggle and giggle and pick themselves back up to try it again. Bean and Magoo get along famously.
But let’s face it. Laylee is a lot more fun. Laylee is just older and cooler enough to make Bean’s head just about explode with the joy of it all. Laylee can answer back when asked Bean’s favorite question–What’s your name? Of course, after about the 15th repeat of that question in their first five minutes together, Laylee had to appeal to Auntie Heather to make it stop. Anyway, with Laylee, the play is not so much games as full-scale indoctrination. Laylee will see the Bean educated before the family togetherness time is over, so help her! And Grammy is complicit in this effort.
Before this trip, the only Disney Princess Bean was familiar with was Ariel. When the day came that I heard Papa trying to get Magoo to say “tractor” and Beanie interjected, “How ’bout Aurora?” I knew that Laylee and Grammy’s work was complete. Ladies and Gentlemen, Bean has officially drunk the kool-aid, and I love it. Bean keeps running for her new princess puzzle, and we play a memory game. It is so cute I can’t stand it to see the two kids curled up together on a couch watching the princesses. It is somewhat less cute when Bean spends the first fifteen minutes of our church women’s meeting loudly proclaiming the names Ariel and Eric as she sees each page in a Disney coloring book.
It all seems like a first step towards watching my little girl’s girly personality grow. Pretty soon she’ll be painting her toenails and shopping for prom dresses and curling her own hair. I can feel my hair graying.
Ohhhhh, it NEVER ends! The pinkness, the cuteness! What you have? Times three in this house and SHOOT ME NOW!
Comment by bon — November 21, 2006 @ 5:37 pm
congratulations on this next step towards grown up big girl motherhood.
Comment by Tess — November 22, 2006 @ 5:11 pm
Bean is priceless! The way she says Aurora is absolutely adorable. I am so glad I got to spend a couple of days with the family too. We are so blessed to have eath other!
Love you!
Comment by Lisa — November 22, 2006 @ 10:54 pm
Yes, the princesses. Sugar has recently discovered them as well. She likes to say “oh that clock!” Which I guess is from Cinderella?
Comment by Stephanie — November 25, 2006 @ 8:23 pm
It’s so great to have cousins! Glad you guys had fun.
Comment by Gabriela — November 28, 2006 @ 7:01 am
I’m happy for you and your family that you feel like your little girl is being indoctrinated to the proper religion of little girls, but I have to tell you, reading this made my skin crawl. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up on Disney too, but I really don’t feel like my life is better for having the idea that “Someday My Prince will Come” at such a young age that I didn’t even know it was there; only to discover as an adult that there are no princes. I hope for you sake and hers that you are providing her with an extra big helping of self reliance with her indoctrination to the happy land of princesses and fairies.
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