Farmers and fairy tales

Carathy and Caleb were playing dress up. Usually this means that I am constantly helping with princess costume changes and having to tell the kids that they look like beautiful princesses in their dresses. Caleb loves to wear Carathy's skirts and shirts and pretend he is a princess and I often wonder what will happen when he doesn't want to be a princess but something more manly. I found that out just the other day. I was working in the kitchen when the kids came around the corner wearing one of Grandpa Squeaks' auction hats and one of Grandpa Driediger's MAF hats. They had on 'farm clothes' and the hats and asked me what they looked like. I wasn't quite sure what they were supposed to be and my first reaction was to tease and say that they looked like beautiful princesses but I figured I would just ask them. It turns out they were playing 'cow sellers.' They were telling me that it smelled like cow poop and there were "lots of other noisy farmers buying all the cows." I guess Carathy remembers her trips to the auction with Grandpa because she was quite animated in her explanation of what was going on and what they had to do there if they wanted to be cow sellers. Caleb was just excited that he finally got to wear a farmer hat!