How to be a princess

A couple weeks ago, Nora asked for my help in putting on her tutu.  I picked it up, and she said, "I am going to be beautiful!"  Excited to pass along some "wisdom," I set the tutu in my lap, looked in her eyes and said, "Nora, you are beautiful inside and out, and not because of anything you wear."  I could see her eyes glazing over with disinterest and then she said to herself in her try-to-be-patient voice, "In a few more minutes I will be a princess."  I'm gonna miss it when she talks only to other people and not to herself.