From rags to royalty

For Christmas this year Maymuna received the following card from her Uncle Dan:

Dear Maymuna,

This card entitles you to:

• One Free Dobbin ride
• One trip to the Pet Store
• One wrestling match
• One turkey sub
• One toy of your choosing from Mrs. Tiggy Winkles (subject to available finances)

Love,

Your Uncle Dan

And so Maymuna and Dan set out yesterday morning to the local shopping mall for their outing. Their goal was just to have fun, have lunch, and buy Maymuna a present. Before they left I begged him not to let her come home with anything too over the top... He tried to promise, but ultimately he said, it's her choice. Of course he was wise to say this. A disclaimer, if you will.

Apparently they had not been in the mall too long before Maymuna stopped dead in her tracks and dragged Dan into a store (the name of which he can still not recall), transfixed by the vision of pink, tulley loveliness in front of her...

She is now Princess Maymuna, and her gown is pink and gold and sparkly and, I imagine, quite scratchy, though she has yet to complain. And in case you missed the princess part, it has a round disk sewn right on to the chest with a picture of Sleeping Beauty right on it.

It frightens me a little personally (are this much gauze and tulle and tafetta and glitter meant to come together in a single garment?) but Maymuna adores it, AND her uncle...

Thank you Dan... Now let's just get our stories straight, Sleeping Beauty went back to school and became a lawyer after she was awoken by Prince Charming, right? Alright then.