Our Little Princess

This little girl has become absolutely obsessed with everything "princess" lately. Of course that doesn't surprise me since she is an almost three-year-old girl. She loves all of the songs from "Frozen," and she can sing almost every word to them. We were in one of the buildings at BYU-Idaho last week, and a guy came up to us and said, pointing to Ellie, "Is she the one that was singing Let It Go earlier?" Yep, that was definitely her. She also requests the "Belle" cd that we have in the car almost every time we drive somewhere. 

When we brush her teeth, she insists that we find each princess in her mouth. She also refused a normal tube of toothpaste because there was a princess one next to it. It was about 50 cents more for the princess tube, but that's worth it for a girl's happiness, right? Her favorite book is any one of the stories from her princess bedtime book that she got for Christmas. She can name almost all of the princesses, except for Tiana. She calls her "Tina," which cracks me up because it reminds me of the llama from Napoleon Dynamite...

The funniest part of this whole princess obsession, though, is the "royalty" lingo she has learned. For a few months now she has called Nathan her prince and tried to dance with him. He does NOT enjoy it. Not even a little bit. And after renting Sleeping Beauty a few weeks ago, she has started calling me "Queen Mommy," "Princess Mommy," or my favorite, "Your Majesty." (If only her calling me these things would make her want to obey me...... :) )

The highlight of Ellie's month was when her uncle Tucker built the world's coolest castle for her Cinderella doll. Unfortunately, she kicked it over almost immediately after it was done. None of the castles I have tried to build have gotten even close to as awesome as that one. Every time I try to build her a castle with the blocks she says "No Mommy, bigger! That's not a Cinderella castle!" Building with blocks has definitely never been one of my talents...

She loves to sing, dance with her dad, and spin to any kind of princess music. We are so glad that we have our little princess to keep us on our toes!