Dresses

Kendi has an affinity for dresses. She associates them with princesses. Her aunt Jerika had brought her some stickers from Disneyland and Kendi played with them until all the stickers with dresses were gone. When she colors in her coloring books, it has to be pictures with dresses. Kendi pretends like she is a princess quite often. When she is a princess her name is "Shula." Every mourning she tries to find a dress to wear so she can be a princess. One night I was putting her to bed. She prefers to wear night gowns to bed, but they were all in the laundry so she had to wear a different set of pjs. I told her that she was being a good princess and she said in a really sad voice, "No mom, I'm not a princess. I don't have a dress."

On Sunday, Kendi was asked to say the dinner prayer at my parents house. After she was done my dad told her that we're supposed to close our eyes during the prayer. Kendi's response was, "I did grandpa. . . but Cari didn't"