When my sister and I were little, my mother took us to ballet lessons, thinking of what beautiful, graceful creatures we would be. Much to her dismay, she wound up with a house full of stinky soccer cleats, dirt-encrusted softball socks, and clothing covered in sweat and grass stains. We seemed to have other plans, although my sister did enjoy wearing dresses, through kindergarten at least, and I wore exclusively purple (definitely a girl color!) for a full year.

It seems that sometimes children have different ideas about who they are going to be, and what they are going to do with their time here on earth, than their parents.


For example, our sweet Josie:

Josie likes her pink sunglasses. (see right)

Josie loves looking in the mirror and smiling, because she is quite fond of that adorable girl in the mirror.

Josie likes sitting atop her winnie-the-pooh choo choo train and smiling and waving in the full length closet mirror - preferably wearing her pink sunglasses.

Josie's wave is not the regular back and forth waive - it is a unique wrist rotation, devoid of any arm movement whatsoever, that caused the shop girl at the Sephora store to comment "Omigosh, how cuuuute! Look at those big blue eyes! And she's got the pageant waive down!"

I fear we might be in trouble.