Birthday Princess Show

 Yesterday, when I picked Anna up from school, her teacher said she had a story for me.  She said, "You won't believe what Anna did."

Oh, Lord, I thought.  Those aren't necessarily the words a mother of a tantrum-throwing toddler wants to hear.

 

Apparently, my creative, spunky, [bossy] two-and-a-half-year-old convinced ALL TWELVE of her classmates, mostly boys,

 

to join her in planning, then throwing,

 

a "Birthday Princess Show."

 

For the good part of an hour, her teacher said, Anna had the kids marching around the classroom gathering items for the "show," getting all her friends excited about it and joining in.  It made me laugh to think about how similar Anna and I are at times (which usually leads to problems of will, but that's another story all together).  My parents tell numerous stories about me as a child leading others into games and shows and dramatic activities, being able to wrangle the most unwilling and unlikely participants into the web of my imagination.  How fun to watch Anna grow into a miniature leader, a kid who includes everyone in the fun.  I pray she never loses the ability to reach out to and include people and that her contagious personality always draws people to her!