the blue blog archives: girly girl

I thought I wasn't a girly girl. I thought I wasn't going to have one of those girly girls. And yet, my daughter went to drop off her brothers at school this morning wearing her pink emli bonnet and her sparkly pink bolero. And then, she came home and put on this little number I just made for her.

Oh yeah, it's a tutu. A year and a half and I'm already at pink tulle. Oh my. This was actually just practice for her Halloween costume, which will involve a longer tutu. I'd read a few how-to's and tutorials that suggested that these things were easy to make, so I thought I'd give it a trial run. My girl could always use a pink tutu. I bought a couple of rolls of pink tulle online, cut up my strips while the boys were brushing their teeth for bed, then turned on Top Gear (cause that's the kinda girl I am) and made a tutu. I knotted and knotted and it transformed itself into this perfectly frilly pink thing of beauty.

Can you see wee one's hand caressing it? I'm not sure she even knew what it was at first, but she knew she liked it. I asked her if she wanted to put it on and she jumped right in.

So, it was a huge success. I have succeeded in making a tutu (Halloween plans still on) and the forces of nature have succeeded in turning me into a girly girl (gender stereotypes will out).

posted by alison at 11:28 am | in baby news , halloween 2008

Comments

Awww. Adorable!

Posted by: Kat with a K at September 23, 2008 11:44 AM

I love that last photo! You have quite the little ballerina there :)

Posted by: Vicki at September 23, 2008 1:12 PM

Isn't it something how little girls "just know" that pink and purple and fluff and jewels and bling are COOL!

Posted by: Celaine at September 23, 2008 1:12 PM

I think the girly-girl thing skips a generation . . . my mom was definitely a girly-girl, and neither myself nor my grandmother are. Also, my sister-in-law is not girly at all, but her mom and her daughter are both the girliest girls who ever did girl.

Posted by: chris at September 23, 2008 2:02 PM

Congratulations! The tutu looks great. My daughter wanted me to sew her a sleeping beauty dress, but I found one at the mall and leaned on her til she gave in. Sewing Halloween costumes for three girls and my husband seemed like too much this year!

Posted by: carrie at September 23, 2008 2:07 PM

Top Gear and Tutus is exactly the kind of girl I am, too!!! How great that there are more of us out there!

Posted by: Natalie at September 23, 2008 2:17 PM

She is starting to look a lot like her brothers... well not with the tutu obviously!

Posted by: Scottishf at September 23, 2008 3:07 PM

There's a children's book called "All tutus must be pink". Look it up at your local library.

Posted by: Susan B at September 23, 2008 4:23 PM

My girls LIVE in their tutus! I made two for each of them this summer, and it's one of the best things I could ever have done for my girly girls!

Posted by: Kristin at September 23, 2008 4:45 PM

I have never been accused of being a girly girl (neither has my mother), but I did have a tutu. It was an old dance school costume (age 5) and I often played with my Tonka trucks wearing it. Go figure. ~ksp

Posted by: Kelli at September 23, 2008 5:05 PM

She looks adorable!

My mom made me a tutu one Halloween... 40 years later, I still remember it! Good for you, making all three costumes every year... you're amazing!

Posted by: Pam at September 23, 2008 5:16 PM

I was a VERY girly girl until I was about seven - I only wore dresses, I made my mom "do" my hair every day (even though she hates doing hair, ha), I wore little-girl gloss for makeup, the works.

Now? I rarely wear makeup, the hair is pretty much left to fend for itself, and while I still love pink and looking pretty, my "girly girl" stage is definitely over. :D

Posted by: ames at September 23, 2008 5:26 PM

How darling! ^_^

Posted by: Jolynn at September 23, 2008 8:02 PM

Precious... AND she looks great in pink.

Posted by: Marianne Wille at September 23, 2008 8:43 PM

So so sooooo CUTE I can hardly handle it!!!

Posted by: Mallory at September 23, 2008 9:03 PM

soooo cute! hhmmmm, i now want to make one for my little girl!

Posted by: gleek at September 23, 2008 9:42 PM

The tutu I made didn't stick to my now 15 year old daughter. But I can still dance.

Posted by: Angie at September 24, 2008 12:09 AM

She looks so cute! I think Dolly needs a matching tutu. :)

Posted by: Elaine at September 24, 2008 7:06 AM

Awww - lucky girly girl to have such a creative Mom like you to make her fun pink things. Enjoy every minute of it - she's so adorable and happy. Love those smiles. I can almost hear some giggles in those pictures.

Posted by: Jennifer at September 24, 2008 7:15 AM

The pink and purple phase seems so inevitable, but possibly transient. There's just no fighting the power of our genetic heritage!

Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport at September 24, 2008 7:39 AM

Awww she is adorable, and now I want to make one for my lo and she is only 8 months old. It would make a wonderful costume.

Posted by: Tawana at September 24, 2008 7:05 PM

She's a cute girly girl!

And with two brothers, I predict in a couple of years she plays some ball! (And so what if she plays in a tutu?)

Posted by: Dorothy at September 24, 2008 8:26 PM

Adorable. Embrace the girly-girl ;)

Posted by: Alicia at September 29, 2008 2:53 PM