Last week we took speck to the beach. It was beach night with a mom group I joined earlier this year (MOPS). They're currently on break for the summer but every Tuesday they now have a "tire out the tykes" activity as well as a beach night at the marina del Rey beach (Mother's beach) once a month on Friday nights.
At the beach I came to the realization that I have raised such a girl! Obviously this prissiness has come from, though I never really considered myself prissy. Apparently, I'm much to close to the subject (myself) to make an unbiased observation. Upon some soul searching and self-reflection I came to the conclusion that I am just as prissy as little miss priss!
Instead of running around in the sand to explore new sites...Speck was perfectly contented in standing by and watching the other kids having fun, occasionally pointing and laughing in glee.
At one point daddy swooped in and carried her off into the sand!!
That did not go over well with little miss. Much tears, loud wailings and screams of "mama" abounded! I was afraid people would think that she was being kidnapped 😱. Thank goodness the population is generally indifferent to the plight of their fellow man. No one even looked at the commotion we were making! Whew! Eventually she calmed down and by the end of the night dare I say? She actually enjoyed herself!
Every morning its a battle to get speck out of her crib. She'll roll around for 30-40 minutes (I've clocked this rolling around at an hour once! We didn't have anywhere to go so I didn't mind). Part of me is wondering if I should put my foot down to this right now - even on days where our schedules are pretty free because I don't want to cultivate this slovenly behavior! When it's time to get up do we really need to get up and go even if we have no where to go?
But I have found that things go much more smoothly if I pluck her out of bed and get her in front of a mirror. She'll even stand there and allow me to brush her hair into pigtails!
Another tactic to get her out of bed is to ask her, "do you want to come to the bathroom with mommy?" She's up on her feet and reaching up to be picked up before you can get her sleeping blanket off!
Somtimes as I'm getting ready in the morning she'll even pull me out of the bathroom (yup - by my cat pajama pants!) and drag me in front of the full length mirrored slidding closet door and demand that I sit while I apply my eye makeup! I guess it's too hard for her to see from her stool...? And of course much pointing follows...
Watch out daddy! Apparenly little miss would like some eye shadow and lipstick too! And if you give her a tube of lip balm and a mirror she knows exactly what to do...
When she first started walking I once made the mistake of holding her hand and walking her into ULTA. Needless to say she wasn't holding my hand for long!
Before I could say stop she shot across the room and busied herself picking out the perfect shade of gloss....took her all of two minutes before she found it and brought it over to me proudly! I was almost tempted to buy it for her - it was so cute and I was caught THAT off guard!! Plus you've gotta give her points for digging around the clerance bin! But thankfully I had the wherewithal to put on the responsible mommy hat and talked to her about obedience!
Another time her auntie (my cousin) and I took a walk and grabbed some coffee at the TOMs shoe store on Abbott Kinney (yes theres a coffee shop there with a sitting area in the back!) and Speck bonded over nail polish with some new gal pals who were painting their nails in the TOMs backyard sitting area!
Occassionally she did come back to make sure we were still chatting on the steps before returning to her new buddies to talk nail color and trending designs! I think she even talked about nail stamping! I don't even know about nail stamping!
I'm sure much to Daddy's fear and dismay, Speck is also turing into the regular shopoholic! She's a pro at sifting through the latest fashions and she's no stranger to digging through a mess at the discount stores to find the hidden gems and the great deals!
Sorting through the latest spring dresses at fast fashion chain H&M. Digging through piles and piles of shoes at Nordstrom Rack! She spotted a pink pair of duckie rain boots that she's just GOT to own! (nevermind we live in LA where is rains like twice a year!)
Her latest acquisition? A gold rimmed pair of Marc Jacobs Aviators - lifted from mommy naturally!
She's developing quite some expensive tastes! But she's definately down to earth enough to shop at the dollar store!
(Looking for her next sugar fix - of course!)
And what girlie girl is complete without logging hours and hours of talk/text time on the phone? gabbing to her girlfriends and updating her social media outlets?
(Aside: you can like her on facebook: Speckventures; follow her on Instagram and Twitter: Speckventures in addition to subscribing to this blog!! She's still currently in negotiations for her own youtube channel but we're at a standstill on account of her lack of verbal abilities; but stay tuned on this front!)
Who's she talking to you ask? Why her GIRL SQUAD - natch!
While its all fun and cute at the moment I've got to remember that a vainity is NOT a characteristic I want to cultivate in Speck. It's okay to be a girlie girl. But as she continues to grow and mature I've got to be ever present to help shape, mold, guide and dicipline her to becoming a beautiful woman INSIDE as she's already beatiful on the outside...
Charm is deceitful and beauty if passing but a woman who fears the Lord she shall be praised!
Proverbs 31:30
Stay tuned for more speckventures...
