Not your average princess

So today N attended her second birthday party. The first one was for a little boy in our Moms Club, held at a gymnastics studio, with a Cars theme. N thought the cars stuff was totally awesome...she had only just recently become obsessed.Today's party was for a little girl in one of her Gymboree classes and it had a princess theme. the place where it was held does all kinds of themes. They provide costumes and goody bags, costumed folks to run games, etc.

N knows in general what a princess is, but I haven't emphasized them at home and haven't taught her who the different Disney princesses are. I refuse to buy her princess dress up clothes. Most of the dresses were 4-6 size and she's a short 3T, so I was happy to find a dress on the rack that was short enough for her to be safe in. After a very little while of being a princess, though, she saw the knight costume provided for boys and decided that was much more appealing. So she became a little knight.
Which was perfectly fine with me. But then when Snow White and Knight Rashii started handing out accessory props throughout the games, they kept giving her princess stuff like a tiara, sash, and wand instead of the knight stuff (helmet, shield, sword). I guess her little gender bending ways weren't in their rule book. She was much more interested in the swords, though, than her wand and the tiara hurt her head, so it didn't last nearly as long as a soft helmet would have. She lost her sash less than a minute after they put it on her.

Toward the end of the game period, she was done with costumes altogether, so at least it wasn't hard to get her to put away the costumes and props. We've been home an hour and she likes the necklace and crayons she got in the goody bag, but hasn't touched the tiara and wand. We may still go through a princess phase someday, but we aren't there yet. She isn't a total tomboy, but she isn't a total girly-girl, either. She's not your average princess.