Swimming in FASHION

I get the impression Olivia will is going to be a fashion conscious child, teen and adult. She loves everything pink and is very particular about how she is dressed. This morning she selected a new summer dress from her closet that is still too big for her. Once she convinced Mommy to let her try it on, it was clear it was going to take a team of horses to remove it. Luckily, a team of horses was located from a local farm and the dress was successfully removed.

Often Olivia will go into the master bath and apply a southern beauty queen helping of makeup. She applies a heavy base and then some lip gloss, which she then tries to eat.

Last week, one of the nannies took Olivia to Target while Evan was at school. Olivia would run her fingers through clothes on the racks until her fingers came across a pink sun dress. She pleaded "Try it on!" After Olivia was able to try the dress on, she refused to take it off when asked and instead demanded, "Pay!" Faced with trying to strip down a screaming toddler or buying an $8 dress, you can guess what the nanny did.

My fear is that the $8 dress will turn into the $80 dress which will turn into the $800 prom dress which will turn into the $8000.00+ wedding dress. For that reason, it is important that we never let this fashion focus get out of hand. She could becomes obsessed with her looks, enter beauty pageants, start trying to kill her competition Tonya Harding style, end up in jail where she meets her new boyfriend who then gets her hooked on meth; leading to her eventual demise in a single-wide trailer explosion.

It is a slippery slope.

It is for that reason I post the following picture:




Olivia, don't ever take yourself too seriously.

For those of you who are wondering, those are swimming goggles on her face, which she will gladly wear on her head, as long as we are nowhere near a swimming pool.