Cinderfella

Have I mentioned that I have wonderful neighbors? They have two little girls very close to the ages of Mason and Ben. Elle, the one close to age with Mason, loves playing with him. This is a great break for all the parents, as they play in the yard and we adults can share stories. After yesterday, the playing might have to end........

Mason was playing inside their house and I thought I would go check on him and bring him home since it was getting close to dinner time. I was told that they were playing upstairs and as I started to walk up the stairs, the two of them emerged from Elle's room. Mason was putting on a lovely Cinderella dress and said, "Daddy, can you help me put this on?" Have I mentioned that he already had a very nice necklace around his neck. Elle was dressed as Sleeping Beauty.

So, as a father, what do you do at this point? I decided to turn around and walk back down the stairs. What did my neighbors decide to do??????? Oh, they got the camera....and the video camera. I went for the tequila.

I grew up with brothers, no sisters, so this concept of dress up is foreign to me. What is the equivalent situation a father of all girls would have? It's certainly not his little girls wearing a football outfit. Maybe it's when his daughter tells him she is on the pill. Let me explain.

It's not so much the dress my son is wearing, but the direction of my imagination. When a father finds out his daughter is on the pill, he might begin that thought process of what the pill means and what comes after the pill......terror for a dad.
For me the imagination of Mason wearing a dress goes down the path of, will he be in a cabaret show or the lead in The Bird Cage2?

Or is it more troubling that Mason has such lovely legs that he pulled off the skirt........