Character Drama

Today while we were eating dinner (Dani did "not want to eat dinner"), Dani was playing the keyboard with her Cinderella doll. Dani would sing "Twinkle, twinkle little star" and then in a Cinderella voice she would sing about the Prince, a witch and a Princess. After a few minutes we heard the two voices arguing with each other. Dani and Cinderella were angrily saying, "That's MY PANIO!" (Pany-oh = piano), "NO, That's MY PANIO!". . . They argued back and forth for a while and then Dani thought of her trump statement "It's MY PANIO, because you're a doll!" and then she grabbed Cinderella and dragged her screaming (luckily her dolls scream quietly) to a box where she was told to stay.

After convincing Dani to eat some of her dinner in exchange for a little juice, she returned to playing on the keyboard without Cinderella because Cinderella was still being punished on the box. However, Dani's hands turned into two different characters which quickly created drama with each other. One hand was a dog and the other a spider. The dog was fiercely afraid of the spider and the spider (hand) kept grabbing the dog (arm) while the dog (hand) clung to the chair for help.

The drama she creates with her characters happens daily, I just often forget them before I get a chance to write them down.

On another note, since Dani's regular sparkle dance shoes got wet, she wanted to wear her new dancing shoes from Nana and and she talked about how they were the "perfect present". Originally she was terrified of wearing these shoes, but today they became one of her favorites.