Wednesday Whimsy - Dressing-Up with Dolly

Any parent of a little girl knows that dressing up is inevitable, but they may not know that it is also an important part of development.  It shows the power of imagination, teaching self-confidence, problem-solving, creativity, and social skills.  It also helps them to explore their personalities, role-playing and acting out different scenes and emotions.  Little girls don't only like to dress up themselves, but they like to dress up with other little girls, or their dolls.  Sammi doesn't often have other little girls to dress up with, but she sure does have the dolls (and frankly, those dolls need a bit of dress-up every now and then, as they spend most of their lives naked)!

I love being able to catch Samantha doing things when she doesn't know she's being watched.  The number of times I have completely missed getting capturing her tea parties and circle time leadership with her dolls on video is astounding, but I happened to have my cell phone handy the other day as she explored the new dress-up bins I set up in her room.  The pics suck spectacularly, but the fact that baby was wearing a purple tutu was too cute not to post here.