Princess or priceless

Trying to pick a fourth birthday dress for K at a Shopper's Stop. Available shortlisted choice of colors - hot pink, pastel green and deep purple. All the three dresses are like tea length, lacy or velvety, flowing with either self engraved bows or flowers and give a good twirl when the little girl spins in it. The twirl matters in their world- she does that all the time in her pattu paavadai or lehengas. After going through all the above criteria, we are left with what color to pick.

The parents somewhat preferred the deep purple, but K finally picked green. She is keen on the princess thing, says she has moved from tinker bell to princesses. It's hard being a 4 year old, with so much to make up your mind about. So much goes on inside that little head. Naive parents (not privy to her thoughts)  asked why not purple...after all Rapunzel wears purple- she rejected saying Rapunzel wears a lighter purple and not this. Since we (the mother) couldn't find blue to make her Cinderella, she said can settle down for Ariel instead. She actually batted her eyes and asked for green and purple actually. One typical woman! These dresses cost freaking 1.5K each!

Anyways, finally the agreement way back in car was that - each year she be a different princess and get a new color. Ah, the joys of girldom and first steps towards negotiating. Priceless conversations! Hope I can keep up this optimism through the years.