Girly, at 7 years old, is becoming increasingly more opinionated about what she wears.  I can still shop for her everyday clothes alone, but when the stakes are high, it’s better to bring her along.  

Saturday night Girly and my husband were scheduled to go to a Father/Daughter dance.   It was Friday afternoon when I remembered that she didn’t have any shoes to wear to the dance; time for a last minute trip to Nordstrom!

Shoe shopping is never fun, especially during a time crunch.  And especially with Girly and her opinions and narrow feet.    Ballet flats were too wide for her and she didn’t like any of the other shoes–except the pink sparkly Converse.  Not a bad idea, I thought, because anyway I hate buying dress shoes that she wears once or twice.   If we could find an outfit that was dressy enough, but worked with the Converse, we would be in business.  She had a cute black skirt at home already, so all we needed was a top.  Poking around the girls department, we found a few options, but she fell in love with an (ugly) hot pink tee shirt with an attached scarf.   After figuring out that it was really the scarf that she loved, we were able to find a cuter shirt (with peace signs too–always a plus as far as Mommy is concerned) and a child-sized scarf for sale separately.   And this is the look that we can up with, more rocker-chick than Cinderella, but a princess all the same:

And with her green velvet blazer:

Ready to dance the night away with Daddy!