A Royal Night

Daddy's out of town this week. We miss him!!! Ruby is doing alright with it so far. He has had to leave 2 other times for a week each and she knows he returns. I got a great hanging calendar by Melissa and Doug and show her every day how many days until he returns. Need to get a small pic of him made to attach to one of the magnets. Today she asked for him. I explained then took her over to the calendar. Then near dinner time she went to the bottom of the steps and called up loudly "DADDY!" He always comes down from working at this time. It was so cute. She accepted my explanation again and ran back to play. We watched one of her Barbie movies just before this. I removed the scary ones from the selection and told her she could watch one tonight. When she was looking at all her movies to pick one she actually pointed to one and said "princess". I said, "Did you just say princess?" She smiled and said "yest!" We sat together and watched The Princess and The Pauper. She was so cute and soooo into it. So I decided a proper girls night was in order.  I didn't get to the grocery store so I had to scrape something together. I had organic chicken nuggets and veggies and rice for her and I made some pasta for me. So the dinner itself was nothing fancy, but I fancied it up a bit with the trimmings...

 The table was set with all pinks. I got out her princess plate, bowl, & cup, and used a cloth placemat and napkin.  I made a flower (sort of) out of her nuggets and a carrot.

 Once the table was set, I took her (doll) stroller that she loves me to push her in and wheeled it into the playroom. I told her it was time to eat and she started to protest for a second until I told her we were having a PRINCESS dinner. Then in grand fashion and with a wave of a hand, I said "Your carriage awaits to take you to dinner, Princess!" She has seen enough princess movies to "get it" and she got this BIG grin. So then I said WAIT! A princess needs her crown! And I put one on her head. She smiled. Then I said, but WAIT! What about the princesses shoes? "SHOES! SHOES!", she said. So we went over to her Disney princess shoes and picked out a pair. I wheeled her into the dining room and escorted the little royal up to her seat. "The Royal Dinner, your highness!" Oh did she get such a kick out of this!

The Princess liked her dinner...AND the royal treatment! As for the Queen...she enjoyed herself, too! :-)