Barbie Girl

When my daughter was little, she adored Barbie, she loved dresses, and her favorite color was pink. She grew out of the girly stuff quite a few years ago. Now, she wears jeans, drives a screaming yellow five speed manual pickup truck and a Ninja crotch rocket. That's why I was surprised that she chose a rather fluffy pink dress for prom.

Here she is our first Halloween in Duluth. There were some horrible dotted swiss green curtains in the basement that I took down and turned into this little fairy skirt.



Of course, by the time the kids dressed for the trick or treating, we were smack dab in the middle of the great Halloween Blizzard of '91, so the costume looked a little more like this.



That was my little princess then, and here she is now.



All grown up and pretty in pink, with a boy who apparently doesn't have cooties. Sigh. At least it's not white with a veil.