Princesses PRINCESSES!

Alana loves princesses with a passion that before now was reserved solely for Chocolate and Ice Cream.  She often pretends to be a princess, either by crawling on all fours and announcing she is "Princess Pony", by putting on wings and proclaiming herself as "Princess Butterfly", or my personal favorite- taking off all her clothes to be "naked princess Alana!"

She has amassed a collection of Polly Pocket princesses, but they have plastic clothes that wear out and tear.  Alana will cry and cry for days the second anything goes wrong for her Princesses, so Ken and I decided to start replacing the Polly Pockets with more practical (although, sadly more expensive) Barbie Princesses.

Enter Princess Belle, the new love of Alana's life.  She came into our home late last night and kept Alana up past her bedtime.  I woke up twice last night to hear my sleep-deprived daughter awake in her bed whispering confessions of undying devotion to her Princess Belle, and once to hear Alana crying because Belle had lost a shoe somewhere in Alana's bed.

I can't be angry, though, because Alana's love for Belle is TOO CUTE FOR WORDS.

Evidence: