Fingers and Toes and Polish, Oh My!

My daughter (2 years old) wavers between wanting to do everything her older brother does including getting dirty, wrestling, football, obstacle courses and jumping off of everything to being a girlie girl by wearing pretty dresses, having her hair up in a ponytail with a cute bow, helping mommy cook in the kitchen, and playing with her babies.

Today, she wanted to be in true form of feminine awareness. I decided to paint my toenails (with free polish from CVS, of course!) during the football game. My daughter came in from playing football in the backyard with her brother and saw my toes. She immediately sat down and extended her feet saying, "Mommy, me too, please!"

My toes are dark blue (I'm pretending I'm young enough to pull that off, but notice I refrained from painting my fingernails blue too) and I knew that Daddy would not love the idea of his two year old with blue nails, so I remembered that I had a pale pink bottle of polish (also free from CVS) in the bathroom. After convincing Sarah that pink would be so much prettier on her than blue, I painted her itty bitty teeny tiny nails for the very first time. So fun!



So, here's our beautiful results...(ignore the fact that my skin tone is already winter death white even though it's only November 1st):



And, of course, she liked it and wanted her fingers painted too.



These days give me glimpses of fun bonding in the years ahead...

Ciao,
J