A Girl and Her Accessories

"Pursss! Pursss!"

This is what I hear every time we are about to leave the house. Anna LOVES her purse. She will simply not go anywhere without it. She carries it in her hand and swings it back and forth as she walks, or she pulls it up over her shoulder so her hands are free to do other things. Most likely to hold more stuff.

Other favorite accessories of hers this season are necklaces (thank you great-grandma!), pencils and paper, sippy cups, and the paci and blankie of course. (I know, I need to work on those last ones)

Anna takes her purse when she's outdoors, exploring Mother Nature...

When she's kickin it at the pool...

When she's bird watching in the rain forest...

And when she's catchin some zzzz's.

She likes purses so much, sometimes she has to carry two!

Anna likes to have as many things in her hands as she can possibly carry. One day, as she walked around topless, she collected two purses, her stacking toy, blankie, and one of Dave's shirts. She got pretty frustrated when she realized how hard it was to get up the stairs with all that stuff in her hands.

Hopefully she never gets in to some of the other accessory trends like belly button rings or fanny packs.

For now, she just LOVES the "pursss" luckily. Today we were at the library and in walked another little girl her age carrying a purse. Anna was thrilled! She ran over to her and showed the girl her purse and then they followed each other around like BFFs. Then the girl sat down at the table with some books. Anna pulled up a chair right next to her. She gets this excited look on her face and opens up her purse, pulls out her pretend cell phone, dials a pretend phone number, and starts chatting away, looking at the other girl to make sure she saw how cool she was. What in the world? What a show off! She is trouble! We'll have to have the manners talk soon.

Although the accessories get disgustingly dirty as they go with Anna from place to place, I will let her enjoy her pretend accessories for as long as she wants. I hope it's a really long time before she starts asking for real ones.

Stay little, my little bag lady!