A Chance Encounter

Tonight Marissa wanted to head down to the park, while Lindsey decided she wanted to play "princess" in her room. "Princess" consists of, you guessed it, dressing up like a princess and prancing around. And apparently it's not as much fun when your entire audience is gone, so at the last minute she decided to join us for the park trip, but forgot to remove one piece of princess apparel.

As we get down to the park, she sees her friend Dylan from school. Dylan is in her 1st grade class, and I get the impression she kind of has a crush on him. When we last saw him at the park in the winter, she chased after him and, upon catching him, rolled on him like a dog would on a dead fish. Well, maybe not the right analogy, but anyway....

She saw him from a distance and ran back to me to give me her huge stuffed chick, because she was apparently embarrassed to be carrying around a massive stuffed animal. And then as she's running down the hill to see him, she realizes she's still wearing a tiara and she exclaims, "Why am I wearing a tiara?!"

A good lesson that you might run into somebody you know, no matter where you go, so leave the tiara at home.