Everyday Life With the Haze

I am loving Hazel's fun personality these days. She's discovering her imagination and it's just brimming over the top. I find myself wanting to eavesdrop on every little thing she says. Not that I miss much. She mostly wants me with her when she plays. She's even started feeding me lines. She'll say, "What are you doing over there, princess?" and if I don't repeat it, she says it again. That's MY line, not hers. It's funny.

Speaking of princesses, they've become quite the obsession. Very first thing when Hazel wakes up in the morning, and very first thing after her nap, she heads out to her toys in the living room and puts on her complete princess get-up: necklace, bracelet, two purses, shoes, and lately, the Belle dress (because it's yellow).
She is all about anything pink and sparkly, and spends all day talking about Belle, Cinderella, and the rest of the crew. The only Disney movie she's seen in its entirety is Beauty and the Beast, but she's quite addicted to any princess songs we can find on youtube. She also loves Swan Princess, and the last few days she's pretended Derek (the prince in the movie) is hanging out with her everywhere she goes. He knocks on the front door and comes with us to the park, to lunch, to play in her kitchen, to read books, everywhere. I suspect he may become her serious invisible friend. I love it!

She likes to play with her baby doll, too, especially now that there's a carseat and a baby swing in the house for her to use. She wraps her doll up in a receiving blanket and carries her around the house patting her back.

Last week I acquiesced to her request and bought a pack of wet wipes in a princess package. She has been using them to thoroughly clean the house. She washes furniture, walls, doors, appliances... And yesterday at lunch she had a cheese quesadilla cut into strips, and she stacked all the pieces up into a precise little pile on her plate. Hmm... I guess she's my daughter after all. Can you say OCD?