This my friends in Miss Indiana, Katie Stam … I’ve seen her crowned Miss America seven, yes seven, times!!! Piper is STILL obsessed with watching the pageant. If she wasn’t so blasted cute while she was watching it, I would have erased it by now. She knows what events come in what order and has her favorite contestants. AND … she’s still not over the fact that Miss Texas didn’t make the Top 12. What a rip-off!

I was thinking that maybe we could enter Piper in a little local pageant. Just for fun, you know. Well, all was on course for that until TLC’s show “Toddlers and Tiaras” came on last night. Don was blown away. I loved the little girl that was all glitzed up (probably because I understand and appreciate mascara) and Piper would love that, but the little girl was completely over-coached. It definitely took away from her on stage. She was so cute and lively backstage – then turned like a robot (Don’s words) once it came to her turn.

So, for now – Piper can continue on with her nightly evening gown competitions in nightgowns with baby blankets clothes-pinned on to make a train and plastic high-heels from Target, and her tap-dancing talent in her “Snow White shoes” that make a clicking noise on the tile. We have 13 years until she’s eligible for the Miss Texas pageant, and if we start saving today – we might be able to afford to buy her a pageant swimsuit by then!!!