Austen loves to put on dresses (her NYCB tutu, her pink princess dress from Disney, her flower dress from Halloween and her Snow White dress). She sort of plays at dressing a couple of princess barbie dolls — Mommy makes the dolls sing. Usually, Austen’s focus is pretend play: pretending to be a princess or ballerina. It’s not really like she’s “playing with dolls;” she ends up talking to her imaginary friends, pretending she’s their mom and carrying princess accoutrements from room to room.