Party girl

On Saturday, our neighbors had a birthday party for their daughter who was turning 5. Anyssa was invited. By now, she knows the word "party" and was very excited to go. On Saturday, I took her to my brothers to visit, then we came home. She had a shower and we were ready to get dressed. However, the nice new jeans with the colored gemstones was not what she wanted to wear. She wanted to wear a DRESS. Not just ANY dress,mind you, but the dress she wore for CHRISTMAS. We tried to explain to her that the jeans would be better because they might be playing games and besides, the Christmas dress looks, well, too much like Christmas. Mommy left the room and daddy went to work on her without any success. Under the tears, she kept saying that she wanted to look "beautiful." By now I know that the line a parent is supposed to say about how kids always look beautiful wasn't going to work, so I had a talk with mommy. Laura said we could try the dress she wore at another friends first communion...a nice gray/pink design that looked cute. We showed her, and she smiled. When all was done, she looked at us and pointed to her smile and said "See? Happy!" And she was.

FWIW...she was not the only girl in a dress and without even seeing the other girls, I know she was the most beautiful one there.