Thumbalrina...

Emmie loves it when I tell her stories...the one that is most often told is about a girl named Emmie who is wearing a beautiful pink party dress with stripes, sparkles, and polka dots. She is wandering through the forest looking for her friends...she finds a BIG castle and she knocks on the door. (At this point there is usually and Emmie interjection that reminds me that the castle is PINK) When no one answers the door she creeps in, finds the kitchen, goes into the fridger (refrigerator) and finds a HUGE cake (interjection that it is a PINK cake) and she cuts herself a piece and eats is all up. Then she goes to the toy room (THE YELLOW TOY ROOM) and plays with their twisty people.

Some of it was my original story, some are bits she likes to add...today I decided to mix it up and tell her about the tiny girl named Thumbalina who is so tiny she can play inside Emmie's Little People house...she didn't want her to be tiny. She wanted her to be big, like Emmie...and she wanted to hold her hand, share Ms. Mermaid, and be best friends. Then we came down and drew the scene in Photoshop...she got to dictate colors and things like the "clues" on their dresses...here's the result of a rainy day and our very overactive imaginations!