Christmas is Still in the Air

While I was without my computer, we took advantage to really enjoy all of Selena’s toys she got for Christmas. It was fun to spend endless hours of playing, exploring, and also a time to teach the skill of putting our toys away before pulling another one out. Selena really hasn’t picked a favorite and jumps from one thing to the next.

She loves her small Disney Princesses with all their fancy dresses and tiny shoes. She does have a little bit of a hard time dressing them, and for the shoes, I can hardly get them on those little feet let a lone expect Selena to. This little set is the size of the Polly Pockets, and all the clothes are made out of a rubber type material for durability. We even got her a couple of Polly Pockets, but these Disney Princesses by far are her favorite in the small doll world. We have already had one incident where while vacuuming I didn’t see one of the little shoes and vacuumed it up. We did retrieve it from the vacuum for Selena, which I think instilled being more careful about getting all the little pieces picked up.

I wanted to get Selena some Barbie Dolls, but she informed me while we were looking at them that she liked the Disney Princess dolls better. We got her three of them. I still think she would have enjoyed the Barbie better with some clothes that she could have dressed her in, but as you can see from the picture above she does love her dolls and though she plays with the smaller ones more, these are never far from her play area. I am going to keep my eyes open and see if there are dresses for these Barbie sized dolls, but do plan on just getting her some Barbie dolls down the road.

Her Frontier Logs are another huge hit. They are just like the Lincoln Logs, a little cheaper and do have some design differences especially where the roofs are concerned. She is learning how to build with them, and enjoys us helping her build log houses with her. Of course she figured out quite fast that these make great drum sticks. We spent several  hours one day learning to keep the beat, which to be honest Selena did perfect with. She sure can keep a beat, no matter how difficult I made it, she followed right along. Maybe she will grow up to be a drummer, I don’t know, but she will have a good ear for music when it comes to any instrument she wants to play as well as dance.

I haven’t done an update on Selena’s dance classes in a while. We haven’t actually made it to dance in December. Remember Selena got sick the beginning of December, so we didn’t go. Then they went on Winter break. We did end up opting out of the recital. I had asked since day one of dance class to get an idea of the price of the costume she would need for the recital, and never could get an answer. Two weeks before Christmas I got a call from her instructor and they wanted $102.99 by that Friday for the costume. What a time of year to want that much money for something that she would only wear once, and probably only be on stage for 15 minutes at the most. She will continue in dance, while I am not sure what we will do for next year, stay with dance or maybe switch over to some gymnastics. We really haven’t made up our mind. We still have the option of the other dance school in Aberdeen which while it costs a bit more per month, they only do recitals every other year, and would not expect two costumes for the child, which we will face next year. Two costumes for a 4 year old! I said it last year and I maintain it this year, I am not that impressed with this particular dance school. We didn’t switch her to the other due to the age requirement. We will think about it next year though.

Selena is one happy camper right now with all her new toys, and we haven’t even broke into the paints and other art supplies she received. We still have so many things to explore.