Abby's Imagination

Lately Abby has developed quite the imagination. Most of her ideas come from Cinderella. She has started calling me "Step-mother" and Maddy "Step-sister." I admit that I make her do chores and lock her in her room at times, but Maddy has definitely done nothing to deserve the step sister title. Abby is always talking about castles and temples--which to her are the same thing. She builds castles out of blocks, blankets, or whatever she can find. The other day she went in the pantry to play and came out and asked me if I wanted to see the Salt Lake temple. She then showed me a tower she had made of tuna fish cans and informed me that it was the temple, and that she was getting married. I then saw that she was holding a "bouquet" (some fake flowers she had taken from one of my flower arrangements). In an attempt to stop her from becoming too princess crazy we've been trying to focus her attention on more productive things. I've started doing pre-school time with her every week. Her favorite part is when we have a treasure hunt in which she collect things around the house that start with the letter we are working on. She also likes the individual mommy attention. She is learning quickly and now knows most of her letters and sounds. Right now we are working on her writing skills and on learning to recognize the lower case letters.