Prince Jake Loses His Head

Bella LOVES her Barbie dolls. When I say LOVE ... I mean she will go to her room and dump them all over the floor and sit in there and play. She's very good about playing by herself ... most of the time. Do you know what she loves more than playing Barbie dolls by herself? Playing Barbie dolls with someone ... someone other than Kadin. I'm not certain, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that everything Kadin plays involves shooting people and dying ... just a hunch ...

I despise playing Barbie dolls - which I find odd because I loved playing them when I was a kid. Her routine of playing Barbie dolls is always the same. We are always princesses and there is a prince who is getting married (because she has a "bride" doll) and we all have to dance. Seriously ... always the same. I am even only allowed to have the same dolls each time we play. Bella gets all the dolls with big dresses and fancy hair ... and I get all the crap. Every. Single. Time.

FUN!!!

So we were in her room the other night playing Barbie's and, surprise ... there was going to be a wedding!! Prince Jake (no joke ... that's what she named him) was going to marry all the ladies ... all 15 of them. I'm hoping this is not a sign of what her future relationships are going to look like, but I digress. So Prince Jake is preparing for his BIG wedding day ... to marry the 15 loves of his life.

Bella was meticulously sitting each doll in a row ... so they could each have a turn to dance with him. So I took my crappy doll and started talking to Prince Jake ...

"So, Prince Jake ... are you getting married today?"

"Yup."

"Are you going to change your clothes? You are wearing beach shorts and a tank top? That's not appropriate attire for a wedding."

"No ... I'm not changing my clothes. I don't have any other clothes Mommy!"

"Oh ... are you nervous about getting married?"

"No ... but my head falls off sometimes."

"Your head falls off?"

"Yeah ... my head falls off." As Bella is still seating all the brides.

At this point she turned on her little Barbie boom box ... and Prince Jake began to dance with each lucky bride.

So as Prince Jake began to dance with his brides ... Bella handed him to me so she could be all the brides.

"Ariel ... could I have this dance?" I ask in my most Prince-like voice ...

"Sure ... just don't lose my boobs"

"Ummm ... what?"

"You know ... just don't take my shirt off!" as Bella giggles ...

"That's not until after the wedding baby" the snarky Prince said.

Come on ... I didn't really say that!!! What kind of parent do you think I am???

I didn't say that ... I didn't say anything because I was too busy laughing! Aaaahhh ... maybe playing Barbie dolls isn't so bad after all.