I have a confession to make. I am a beauty school drop out and I give my daughter pedicures in the kitchen sink.
Is it weird that I think a not quite 4 year old should have beautifully moisturized feet that smell of lemon verbena and expertly painted sparkly toenails? Maybe. But I'm a Girl and the apple apparently doesn't fall far from the tree. Yesterday at her appointment at the cancer centre, one minute she was standing in the exam room wearing only a diaper, the next minute she had donned a disposable medical face mask like a bikini top. We all laughed at her natural fashion sense. Incidentally, a few minutes later she also tried to make a stylish cape out of a blue disposable bed pad. Coupled with her hot pink knee socks and jazzy suede sneakers and the fact that she wouldn't stop running around the room, she looked like a tiny superhero.
But back to the pedicure....it may indeed be peculiar but she loves it and it's a blessed 10 minutes when she actually sits still! She swishes her little feet around while we mull over important issues like what's going on with our economy, who will be the next person eliminated from American Idol and of course what colour she'd like her toes painted.
Roll the video! (Listen for her big new word: basketball!)
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