We never really encouraged Mary Grace to love the Disney Princesses, she took to them quite naturally. It was such a preoccupation that we had seen all of the movies multiple times, and had started a sizable collection of products. As the products kept rolling in, year after year, I wondered if there would ever be an end to the variety. Disney marketing is a typhoon.
My favorite and the item that led me to coin the term "franken-toy" was the Disney Princess Kitchen. Because it's important for a princess to be handy in the kitchen after all. We have costumes for every princess (and one prince), several different pairs of Disney Princess shoes, tiaras, towels, robes, coloring books, painting kits, branded games (checkers, dominos, etc), sidewalk chalk, and the list goes on.
But one of the early items were the princess wall decals. 12" long images of each of the princess that have adorned Mary Grace's bedroom wall since she got her bedroom. And that's what this post is about.
She decided to redecorate her room with a more prominent American Girl Doll theme, and being short on usable wall space, she took down the princesses and put up the American Girl posters...
It's a sad day for these two parents. I know that at only eight years old, she hasn't outgrown them completely and once we get to Disney in Florida, I have a feeling that her interest will be rekindled, yet that nagging sense that my baby girl is become all grown up is becoming more of a reality with each passing day.
