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Today's guest blog is by Jaclyn Falkenstein, the Public Relations Coordinator for The Children’s Museum. In her other job, she is Mommy to two girls, ages 18 months and three years.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"39883","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"277","height":"132","title":"Barbie The Fashion Experience","alt":"Barbie The Fashion Experience"}}]]As I was reading the copy for one of our upcoming museum programs the other day (BarbieTM The Fairy Fashion Experience) it reminded me of one on my family’s favorite stories about my oldest daughter. As a typical three-year-old, one of my daughter’s very favorite activities is playing dress-up. We constantly find ourselves living with a pretend princess, mermaid or fairy. This love of dress up was discovered by my aunt just before the holidays. Naturally, she knew the perfect gift to give my daughter – a frilly green tutu and purple iridescent fairy wings. My daughter opened this gift with delight and immediately requested to put on both items. She wore her fairy outfit with pride for the rest of that day and as often as we would allow it in the days following.
One evening, as my daughter was clad in her usual outfit of green tutu and fairy wings, I asked her to go put on her pajamas so we could brush her teeth for bed. A short while later she emerged from her bedroom dressed in her favorite pajamas – zip up, one piece, footy jammies. She had even managed to zip them up herself, but with a peculiar bump around the middle. It took me a moment to realize that she had never taken off the green tutu and had managed to jam the entire thing inside the pajamas so she could actually wear it to bed!
My little fairy is one funny girl and even now, months later, she still loves wearing her green tutu and fairy wings. If we would only let her wear them everywhere she goes she would – even to the museum!
Don't miss the final Barbie® Late Night! Registration closes at noon on July 29th. Join us for an evening of fashion fun. Work with a real Mattel designer and local designers to create fairy wings and see a big-screen viewing of the latest Barbie® movie, Barbie™: A Fairy Secret. Register now!
