Hats, sunglasses, dresses, shoes, bags, accessories, she loves them all.
When she's home, she's constantly going to the wardrobe where her clothes are and she'll be pulling at her tops, pants, shorts, dresses, socks and she'll attempt to wear them. For someone who's not two yet, I have to say she's doing a very good job putting on the clothes herself. Some days I have to fight with her to take off some of the clothes or she'll "fight" with me coz she already has a pair of shorts on but she wants to put on another pair on top of the one that she's already wearing!
When it comes to shoes, I have to be very discreet with them. If I lay out too many pairs of shoes, we'll have a hard time getting out of the house coz she'll be picking at them and sometimes her choices are not exactly my choices. (At least I don't think they match with her clothes so sorry babe, you've got to wait a while more before Mummy will give you total freedom to dress yourself as you like.) And yes, she wants to wear the shoes on her own and she does try to wear everybody else's shoes. Once I didn't hear from her for 15min and then I found her at the shoe cabinet busy trying to put on her own shoes and trying on my shoes and ND's shoes. Oh and when she manages to put on her own shoes, she'll proudly declare very loudly to us, "did it... did it!"
Whenever we need to leave the house, she'll scramble to get her bag. If she can't find her bag, she'll start going into a frenzy, searching the house and yelling,"bag, bag!" and we all got to search for her bag so that she can carry it. She's so relentless about having her bag with her every time she leaves the house, that she'll carry it even if we're just going down to the void deck for 5min. When we went for church camp in June, the bag that she carried all the time was this pink Strawberry Shortcake one. Well, ND misplaced it at the end of the trip (ND : I misplaced it?) and we were so worried about how she would react after that. Thankfully, when we came back to Spore, her grandaunt who was visiting from UK had bought her a blue Princess Ariel bag so now, that's the bag that she usually carries with her.
When we're home, and she sees toys that look like accessories, if she can hang them round her neck like necklaces or on her arm like a bangle, she would do it. Some days she'll get her hands on Caleb's army dog tag and it'll go round her neck. Other days, it's some art and craft accessories that Caleb made in school and she'll take it to adorn herself. Or it would be Caleb's fireman's hat or army helmet that she'll wear on her head and parade round the house.
Since Caleb is a boy and he's my firstborn, majority of the toys that we have at home are either toys for boys, like cars/ trucks/ trains or they're gender generic. We really don't have any girlie princess toys, dolls, dress up toys for girls at home. The closest thing that we have would probably be the kitchen set that Godpa bought for Caleb or maybe some stuff toys.
Pls don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining that we don't have any girlie toys. Actually I'm quite happy about the current situation at home coz looking at how "hiao" my girl is, I think the boyish toys help her to strike a good balance. I'm one of those mothers who's very reluctant to introduce my girl to the princess stuff and barbie dolls. (Anyone who wants to buy my girl anything, pls NO princess stuff or barbie dolls.) I'm quite happy that at home, her favourite toys are actually playing racing cars with korkor, kicking balls and playing table soccer. (Yup, my girl asks to play with Caleb's table soccer every other day and she loves balls.)
Ya, she can play with the princess stuff occasionally when she visits Yeeyee's house. I'm ok with that. But my greatest fear is that she'll grow up to be very "gu niang", (which I'll define as overly girlie) so I guess the girlie stuff can wait till she's much older.
Btw, in contrast, Yeeyee has been telling me that Nic and Nat (who have tons of girlie toys at home) have been wearing hairbands, putting on clips for Nevan didi and making him hold their princess wands at home. And Nevan didi squeals with delight and excitement every time they open the girls' wardrobe. Haha, so she's getting a little worried for him. I told her that we should let Sarah and Nevan play together more often so that Sarah can introduce balls and cars to him and he can introduce hairbands and hairclips and princess wands to her.
