Down the Bog

We recently decorated our baby daughter Abby’s bedroom with a Princess theme because of course she really is quite the Princess. Here are some pictures.

The room actually has ended up with a Disney theme as most of the Princess’s in the decor are from Disney movies. It makes me think back to when my other daughters were a lot younger and were such great Disney fans. Hannah, Sarah and Ruth absolutely loved so many of the movies that we had on video.

If I recall correctly the first one that we bought was The Little Mermaid from 1989 and it was a spectacular success especially with Hannah who was soon heard to be singing all the tunes with her little girl voice. I think it was the movie that captured all of their imagination because I remember so well a holiday that we took down in Devon and we got them each a mermaid doll. I don’t think that the doll’s were ever put down the whole two weeks.

We added several Disney movies to the video library. Amongst them were Beauty and the Beast (one of my favourites) Alladin with the great voice talent of Robin Williams and a little later the very popular Lion King.

A big memory that stands out for me was how the girls would each take several roles from the movie they’d be watching and act out the part with one eye on the TV. I think it’s fair to say that on more than one occasion there were arguments about who played who.

Now up to date with Jake and Abby the Disney movies are not really their thing yet. Jake has autism and so is less focused on the TV at this stage and Abby is still a little young. But we already own Alladin on DVD which we bought a couple of years ago and today we bought The Little Mermaid. I tried sitting down with the kiddies to watch it but their interest was still minimal bso I watched it for half an hour or so and the memories came flooding back to me as to just what a favourite this movie was in our family. I suspect it will have it’s time again.