A Little Too Soon?

The boys are off with their Papa and their cousins at a movie this evening. So I decided since it was just me and my girl, we should do something "girly". I just painted my toes this morning and thought, maybe I'd try to paint Emily's!! She's almost 17 months, mind you. I popped us some popcorn (mostly to distract her, but also because it sounded good!) and I gave it a try. I kept telling her that we were going to make her toes pretty! Here are the results:You can't tell (my picture taking skills are quite lacking - either that or I need a new camera!), but they didn't turn out too pretty! It's half on her skin and half on her nail. My mother, the manicurist, would most definitely not approve :-).

So I'm thinkin' Miss Em is just a tad too young for "pretty toes". Every time I'd touch her foot, she'd wiggle it out of my grasp. She must think I'm trying to cut her toe nails - which she HATES! So the only way I could do it was to distract her in the mirror and with popcorn while trying to paint a moving target the size of a flea (She has tiny toenails!). Anyway, I'll try again in a year or so.

For those of you with little girls, how old were your daughters when they would sit still to have their toes painted?