Frances Friday: Bunny

Frances needed a new winter hat, as noted in last weekend's to-do list: the one from previous years was too small, and could no longer be pulled down to cover her ears. Accordingly, on Tuesday I went to find her a new one.

I found it in Gymboree: a white fake-fur hat with bunny ears and a bunny face embroidered on the front.

Frances is a girl who likes her make-believe. At last year's birthday party, one friend gave her a blue hello-kitty bathrobe and matching slippers; the hood on the robe has little cat ears. When she puts on her kitty-kat wobe, as she calls it, she becomes a kitty-kat, walking around on all fours, meowing, climbing up into my lap to scratch my arms and sniff my face. "I'm a baby kitten," she says in a high voice, "and you are my person."

"Hello, baby kitten. What a beautiful baby kitten I have," I reply.

"Meeeeeeow," she says.

So while a white fake-fur hat with bunny ears and a bunny face embroidered on the front might sound too precious and overdone for most kids, I knew Frances would love it--that she would put on that hat and become a bunny rabbit.

Last night I put it on her head when her Dad picked her up for their visit, and she hopped out the front door and down the walk, little pink-mittened hands held out in front like rabbit paws, white fake-fur ears flopping. "Bunnies go really fast," she explained to her father.

I closed the door, leaned against it and laughed.

What a beautiful bunny I have.

Posted by Andrea at November 16, 2007 9:44 AM under Frances Friday

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