A Little Late to the Craze

I don't remember if I posted this thought, but I was so glad that Lila was Sophia for Halloween instead of Elsa like everyone else. However, the very next week she caught the Frozen bug. We had seen the movie in the dollar theater I think more than a year earlier. Then Kayla (her best friend) got a pair of nice, blue sparkly high heel shoes with a snowflake on the toe and a picture of Elsa on the inside. The nursery leaders that week said she had a "serious case of shoe envy" and had spent a lot of time and effort on trying to convince and force Kayla to give them up.

Since she liked the shoes so much, we spent a few minutes one evening watching YouTube videos of some of the Frozen songs. Then she started asking to wear my scarves tucked in the back of her dresses so she had an Elsa cape. She asked to listen to the songs, and would often be caught singing "Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!" over and over. She also added "Elsa hair" to her requests for hairstyles. In the end, she got a pretty Elsa dress and Elsa and Anna barbie dolls for Christmas. She loves to play Frozen. She insists on being Elsa and I am Anna unless Kayla is here. She runs away from prince Hans and plays with Olaf. It is really funny, whenever I play Anna she seems obsessed with asking who I am in love with. Depending on her mood she either demands that I love Hans because I don't know that he's bad yet, or I love Christof and Hans is knocking on the door- what should we do?!

Besides Frozen the other thing Lila has been doing as she plays is just imagining she is something different and making sure everyone around her has a role. When we play Frozen Nick is either "Prince baby" or "Sprinkles." Not sure why he isn't a Frozen character. Other than that she usually picks something and names us all after it. We might all be owls. Lila is a kid owl, Nick is a baby owl, Todd is a Daddy owl. Sometimes both Lila and Nick are babies. She does also still sometimes play Jake and the Neverland pirates. It has been so fun to see how her imagination is growing.

My best attempt at an Elsa style with Lila's short hair

Sometimes she wears the crown, but most of the time she doesn't because Elsa doesn't usually have one

Don't mind the baseball stuff...