Who Needs Disney Princesses?

Last week Claire and I went to pick up the sister missionaries and take them to my Dad and Holly's place for dinner. One of the missionaries tried to start a conversation with Claire by asking her which princess is her favorite. Claire just gave her a blank look. Why??....Because Claire really had no clue what she was talking about. Claire has no interest whatsoever in watching tv or movies. However, she absolutely loves reading books and a major part of our day is spent doing just that. (Hmmm, maybe I should look for some princess books.) The other part of our day is spent outside playing, going on walks, enjoying nature and taking in everything around us, and answering her fifty million "What is that?" questions. So it is true that she may not know the difference between Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Belle, Jasmine, Ariel, Cinderella, and all the rest. But she can tell the difference between a garbage truck and a dump truck, a backhoe and an excavator and a front end loader, a semi and a delivery truck, a school bus and a UTA bus, and a fork lift and a boom fork lift. Its not that she is into trucks or things like that, she is just curious about the things she sees. I guess if the princesses were outside in real life she might know them by name too.

Maybe the day will come when she does get all excited about the Disney princesses and would prefer watching Cinderella over watching the garbage truck dump EVERY single garbage can on our street.