Princess Confusion

Matilda has had fairly limited exposure to the Disney princess world. However, this past Saturday she had a major introduction to the gals thanks in part to Gigi's dress up bin and Molly's princess themed birthday party. And just in time, too. I think if she showed up at preschool next month with no idea who Ariel or Aurora are Matilda might have sealed her fate, socially anyways. 

Here's our princess-ignorant, bug-loving gal petting a slug and wearing two of Gigi's dress up tops (Tinkerbell & Cinderella at this particular moment). She wore these tops around the big un-birthday party that Gigi's family threw all afternoon. Everyone kept remarking on Matilda's get-up saying, "Oh, look at you, you're Cinderella." M doesn't know Cinderella but started to get clued into the whole princess gist and realized something was up. 

Then we turn up at Molly's party a few hours later and Sleeping Beauty, a real live princess, was in attendance. As Sleeping Beauty was doling out dress up dresses for the gals, Matilda was in her face insisting that she was Cinderella. You can see her below trying to be patient and explain to Matilda that, no, really, she is actually Sleeping Beauty. After M insisted 5 or 6 times that she was Cinderella, the princess finally gave in and explained that she was "Cinderella's friend." 

Matilda seemed to accept this logic and finally stopped harrassing the poor woman. M also quickly came around to liking Sleeping Beauty best since she had good stories, bubbles and just general princess party fun. 

She is now noticing princesses everywhere, although she does still hunt equally hard for pill bugs and wolf spiders so I am not yet alarmed that she's gone too girly on me.