She may talk a lot about prince charming, but daddy's still the king

For a little over a year now, Steve and Anna have been hitting the Build and Grow workshops together on Saturdays at Lowe's. It makes for good father-daughter time, plus Anna gets to pound something other than mommy's last nerve, and daddy gets to hang out at at Lowe's, where the mother ship has called him home.

Like any true princess, she has an outfit for the event. She doesn't always wear her face like this. This one was special for mommy:

She gets a patch for every project she completes, and mommy gets to sew them on the work apron for her (which kind of hurts mommy's fingers, but mommy keeps her big mouth shut):

Anna's a confident girl, and her outings with daddy at Lowe's are a big part of that. She says things like, "I'm good at building," which is true, but it sorta doesn't matter that it is. It only matters that she thinks it is. If any of those losers at pre-K say something stupid like "You're not that great" (or something that pre-Kers would actually say...), she has a pumpkin, a time capsule, a jewelry organizer, a gingerbread house, a fire truck, a helicopter, and a race car that all say otherwise. Not to mention an attentive daddy who loves her a heckuvalot more than his remotes or tools.

Here's the most recently finished project. They did race cars in honor of whatever big racing event thingy happened this weekend (that's telling, eh?), but Anna doesn't care why they made race cars. She likes her race car because she made it, and she got her daddy all to herself the whole time. What more could a princess want?