So its not terribly surprising that Marvel is spoken here as a family. Even my princess loving mini is becoming fluent.
Mini can recognize the logos of all of the Avengers and can tell you my favorites and why. She can talk Spidey with her brother and her Daddy, knows Thor and Loki. Right now she has a fascination of all things Rocket. I think right now it's mostly the cute factor more than anything else but you know, that's ok too.
In the midst of all of her puppy, kitty, American Girl dolls and princess pictures she recently added two pictures of Star- Lord and Rocket to her room. The girl is developing her own interests and I'm letting her pick and choose. Obviously within reason.
During our "big summer blowout" Disney/Star Wars Weekends/Universal trip she picked out her first Marvel shirt. She thought it was cute and well, she's six.
E decided to wear her Marvel shirt today with leggings and a sparkle athletic gunmetal skirt. it was the perfect E outfit, sparkly and cute with the right amount of spunk. She couldn't get more girly today if she tried.
Well, apparently she could. Tonight at dinner Mini announced that she was wearing a boys shirt. I said, no...remember we bought it in the girls section and it's talking about boys. She looked at me and said "No, Mommy...girls don't wear superhero shirts. Only boys do." After assuring her that girls can and do wear superhero shirts, she finally told me that some of her friends told her she was wearing a boys shirt and it embarrassed her. It bothered her enough that she even told her big brother about it and he was talking to me about it too.
I want mini to be proud of her choices. I don't want her to feel like because she's a girl she can't like Marvel, or Star Wars, or whatever. If she wants to be a princess superhero so be it. She is the only one who can decide that.
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