Lia's First Homecoming Dance!

It's not every day that your first homecoming dance happens at the age of three, but this is what happened to our little one due to a funny chain of events last night. Since Ron had to chaperone his high school's homecoming dance yesterday after work (meaning he would be gone from 6 am til midnight), Lia and I decided to drive up to his school and go out to dinner with him beforehand. Right as we were heading out the door, Ron called and asked if we wanted to go to the dance for the first hour or so. I immediately jumped on this opportunity as I knew that Lia would think of it as a real, live ball with an endless amount of princesses wearing "gown balls." So, I quickly threw some clothes in a bag and off we went. A few hours later, Lia and I found ourselves parked on a bench next to the entrance of the dance watching girl after girl after girl arrive in her finest duds. Although Lia loved them all, her favorites had to be the gowns that "went all the way to the floor" (a particular feature of all Disney princess dresses that Lia has loved from day #1). Lia was absolutely adorable that night! She was so well behaved and faithfully followed me everywhere. She loved wearing her own party dress and kept on asking to go into the room where the actual dance was taking place to see the princesses dancing at the ball. Since we were there the first hour, only a few people were dancing out on the floor each time we went in. However, every time we left the gym, Lia would swirl and twirl around the hordes of teenagers as we weaved our way back to our observation spot on the bench. It truly was a magical evening for Lia and one that I will always remember!