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1.25.2012

Today's Doses of Cute and Hope

 We are watching my granddaughter Nia Grace. Like every family watches with anticipation to see who their little ones are and will become. Nia joined us here on Earth in spite of some pretty long odds. She has been in many ways a healthy, delightful, and typical baby/ toddler. And then every once in a while she throws us a curve.  On her  3rd birthday  she received a Radio Flyer wagon. It was her favorite present. When they got it home, and stories were read and jams put on she declared that she would sleep in her wagon.  She has a beautiful bed, but has sometimes forsaken it to sleep curled up in her rocking chair - because it rocks. Her parents indulged the wagon sleep. She has not slept in her bed since then, and it has been several months. When she stretches out, she is already longer than the wagon. You just have to wonder where she goes in her dreams, that a bed with wheels is so superior. So Cute.


Part 2 - Hope.

Nia was invited to a birthday party for another three year old. It was billed as a Princess and Knight party.  Mind you, Nia is a girly girl in many ways. She LOVES the pink tut and sparkle tights. Jewelry, and headbands and butterfly wings. She has cars and trucks, but they don't get used as much as her toy kitchen.  Her parents have so far kept her Disney free, but princess is a concept she knows and likes. But she immediately told her mom that she wanted to go as a Knight to the party.  Her rationale was "Knights get to fight dragons"  Her mother found her a knight costume, mit sword. Then through further consultation, she decided that she would be a girl Knight, or maybe a princess who fights dragons, which would allow you to have a tutu, sparkle tights, and a sword. She doesn't think binary, She doesn't think she has to choose. She doesn't want to be a boy, she just wants to fight dragons. And no one is going to contradict her thinking.  And by the time she runs into someone who tries, she will be solid enough to laugh, and proceed. She is already pretty solid. We are as pleased as punch. She is my hope of the future.
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// posted by Peggy Senger Parsons @ Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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When my grandaughter was young we had this video of a young girl knight. I believe that she was Sir Lancelot's daughter. We watched it many times. Nia Grace may enjoy it as much as we did.

http://www.amazon.com/Quest-for-Camelot/dp/B001I7OCYE/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327531320&sr=8-2-fkmr2
# posted by Blogger Jami Hart : January 25, 2012 2:48 PM
 
When she's older, like 12-ish, I recommend the Alanna books by Tamora Pierce. You or her mom may already have read them, but a very fine girl who gets to be a knight even though they said girls can't. If you haven't read them, you might like them right now.
# posted by Blogger Robin M. : February 07, 2012 1:29 PM
 
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