The other day, Bailey approached me asking me if she could wear a particular something. She wanted to wear some ears. Now, yes, she has her own pair of ears, but these were a pair of Minnie Mouse ears, not to be confused with her Mickey pirate hat with ears. Like the hat, these too came from the Wonderful World of Disney. And back in February, we did get some enjoyable usage out of them.
Oh, and by the way, with the ears comes a new persona. She does insist upon being referred to as Minnie Mouse while donning the ears.
But since our trip, into a drawer they went. I figured they might see the light of day again sometime, but I wasn't sure when. So on Wednesday morning when she brought them to me as the first article of clothing she wanted to wear, I knew that would be the light of day for those ears. Now finding something to wear with them was the awkward part.
She picked out a shirt, a Tinkerbell long-sleeved shirt. I explained to her it wasn't a long-sleeved shirt kind of day, which has become a typical debate for each day. Most of her favorite shirts are long-sleeved, so even though she knows it's no longer cold weather, she still wants to sneak them in. I told her she needed pants on too, and she argued that, "Minnie Mouse doesn't wear pants."
"But Minnie Mouse doesn't want to wear a dress. She wants to wear a shirt."
"Then Minnie Mouse will wear pants."
"But Minnie Mouse doesn't wear pants."
And repeat. This went on for a while until the freedom of the great outdoors was brought up and she finally compromised, but not easily, and we went through a couple other arguments, well, mostly me just saying, "then we won't go outside until you make a decision." She eventually did settle on wearing her Minnie Mouse shirt from Disney World (actually we picked it up at a Retail Giant store in Florida) with a pair of shorts. And for most of the day, she did continue to wear her ears, even if they needed adjusting from time to time. The only time they came off was when she wanted to swim in the little yellow pool outside. We had forgotten them afterwards and she realized it later and dashed out to rescue them.
After all, who is Minnie Mouse without the ears? Who is any mouse without their ears?
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