The Cookie Carnival

When I was a small girl in a time when people still rented videos from grocery stores, my mom used to rent a VHS tape of Silly Symphonies from Disney. My favorite of these was a short 10 min cartoon called, The Cookie Carnival. It is the story of a Mardi Gras/Miss America type competition in a land of cookies and pastries. It starts with a parade of beauties such as miss coconut and miss licorice.
The you meet a wandering cookie man who comes across a crying cookie girl. He asks why she is so sad to which she replies, "I want to be in the parade, but I haven't any pretty clothes to wear." Yeah what woman on the planet hasn't felt like that before? I must quote that to Jeff at least 12-15 times a year.
The guy then proceeds to give her a frosting makeover that is fun and delicious.
She is entered in the parade and wins! In all the excitement the man is overlooked and our queen is rushed off to choose a king from the candidates.
And if you think the makeover was awesome well wait til the guys come. My favorites are the Angel Food cake guys who sing, "You should marry one of us because we are so good." Great line! The the devils food cake, which in today's day of PC is probably totally racist but whatever, These guys have a great scat song that my sister Krista and I memorized in college and couldn't stop singing, "we're naughty but we're nice, we're nice and naughty oh yeah!"
We'll our queen doesn't choose any of the guys but instead chooses her makeover genius and we get a happy ending that has what can only be described as the greatest scene ever created.
So why the mention. I recently found this on you tube, and Mae is obsessed. She wants to watch it constantly. She giggles with delight when the opening music comes on and watches it intently. She claps when the girl wins the parade. Yesterday when I was applying my makeup I powdered her face a bit and she WENT WILD! She was so delighted to be made over like the Cookie Queen. Today she came in and demanded make-up. She even knows that the lipstick is not for eating, but puckers her lips. What a girl! But isn't that what all parents secretly want, is their child to adore the exact same things they adored as a child? Now before anyone freaks out, I do not really put makeup on her face, nor do I intend to start any time soon. But one of the greatest things about my mom was that she did let me start wearing some simple makeup, blush and gloss at a much younger age then many of my friends. It was cool and I really don't think it did me any harm. So thanks mom, for the make up and for the VHS rentals, I have passed on the love.