Princess Maya and Princess Aunt Beth

My brother Jonathan met me at the airport in Prince George, BC on Tueday evening.  We were all going to stay at a hotel for a few days since my sister in law Chelsey was going in for surgery on Wednesday.  When we arrived at the hotel my niece Maya came running down the hall to give me a hug.  My nephew Eli just turned one.  He did not recognize me but he smiled when I made faces at him.  We had dinner then Chelsey went to have a rest.  Maya wanted to go to the room too.  In an effort to distract her, I had the following conversation with my three year old niece:

"Princess Maya?"
Maya's head shoots up and she looks at me with sparkling eyes.
"Yes?"
"Would you like to give me, Princess Aunt Beth a tour of your royal kingdom?"
"Of course I will Princess Aunt Beth!"
"We will need to link our pinkies together."
"Okay, we sure can."
For the entire tour of the hotel Maya insisted on holding pinkies and not hands. 
I also taught Maya the queen wave which we called the princess wave.

Wednesday

Maya, Jonathan and I went shopping during part of the morning.  We found a beautiful butterfly costume and some pink striped tights at a consignment store.  At the dollar store we found some pink goggles for Maya to wear in the pool.   Maya asked to have shoulder ride while we were in the mall.  When people passing us were smirking and laughing I asked Maya what she was doing up there "Oh, I am giving everyone the princess wave Princess Aunt Beth."  Oh dear.

When we got back to the hotel Maya decided to wear all of her new favourite things.  I wanted to show a video of her singing a song but could not get it to load here.  Yes, Maya did wear this minus the goggles to see her mommy in the hospital.