My brother’s fiancee and I took Poppy to David’s Bridal over the weekend to look at flower girl dresses. I was expecting Pi to be thrilled at all of the “princess dresses,” but she was pretty ornery about the whole thing. She rejected every dress in the flower-girls section as “not Aunt Carrie’s dress.” She finally spotted one she liked in the “junior bridesmaid” section. It was about two sizes too big for her. Once we tied up the straps, though, it looked fine. She pranced around in front of the mirrors for awhile proclaiming, “I’m a princess!” When I tried to put her regular clothes back on, she yelled, “Make me another princess! I want to be another princess!”

I think she’ll enjoy being a flower girl.

After the princess extravaganza, Rockford and Justin came back to fetch Poppy, and Carrie and I looked at dresses for me. Because I’m going to be a bridesmaid. David’s Bridal has 10,004 bridesmaids dresses available, and I tried on four of them. I found one I really liked, but it’s long and I wanted to find something knee-length. Here’s where you come in. Do you think they’d be able to alter this to make it knee-length, without it looking funny?

The wedding is next September, so I have a little while to figure this out.