When I found out I was having a girl I was so excited.  Growing up the only girl with 4 brothers I felt like I had had my fair share of boys and wanted a little girl.  Finding out that my first baby was actually going to be a girl was a wonderful surprise.  I started imagining the beautiful clothing I would dress her in.  I started imagining the fun we would have playing with dolls and barbies and my little ponies as she grew up (all favorites of mine when I was little).  I wondered if she would be like me, a mix of tomboy and girlie, or all tomboy.  I never for moment imagined she would be 100% girlie, I don’t know why, I just didn’t.

I’m not particularly girlie, and I’m not all tomboy either.  I would definitely consider myself a mix.  I do, occasionally, love to look pretty and get all dressed up, but for the most part you’ll find me in jeans and a t-shirt with my hair pulled back in a ponytail and no make up on.  The idea that I would find myself the mother of a 100% girlie girl never crossed my mind.  However, that is exactly what I am.  Maya is currently in a phase of being 100% girlie.  She is very opinionated when it comes to what she will wear, mostly dresses.  Shoes are a bit of an obsession of hers.  I bought her a little pair of pink ballet flats the other day and she put them on and pronounced that she was going to “wear ‘em everyday, mommy!!”  And she has.

I have to admit it’s kind of fun.  She is all about having pretty bows in her hair, or her new sparkly tiara!  She’s started wanting me to paint her toe nails.  I did it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and would you believe she sat perfectly still the whole time.  Afterwards she had to show everyone her “torable” (adorable) toes

Love my little girlie girl and I’m having so much fun being her mom.