Today was "hat day" at Maya's preschool. So last night, we collected every kind of hat in the house...baseball caps, cowboy hats, African hats, princess crowns, you name it, we probably had it laying on the living room floor. Once all hats were laid on the floor, Maya then made her choice. After she chose, we asked her if she was sure she didn't want to wear her cool blue flowered cowgirl hat or her leather African hat, but her mind was made up. She had spoken and her decision was made.
At school today, every child in her class proudly wore his/her baseball cap. The girls wore cute pink ones and the boys wore the cute sports team caps. Even her two teachers wore baseball caps. Maya didn't even flinch when she saw everyone else. She instead proudly walked into her classroom sporting her ever- so -cool "gingerbread hat" as she calls it.
Oh how I hope her amazing independence and self-conviction perserveres into her teen years. For now, we are just so proud of our Maya who loves to beat to her own drummer.
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