Several months ago, I was shopping for undies for Allie.  I bought a pack of Hello Kitty-themed undies; and a pack of Disney Pixar movie-themed undies.  The Disney Pixar movie-themed pack came with undies featuring Nemo characters, Toy Story characters, Wall-E characters, and Cars characters.  At the time, the only movie Allie was familiar with was Toy Story (which she LOVED).  However, for reasons unknown, the "Cars" undies quickly emerged as her most very favorite pair.

Fast forward to today.  The Cars undies are still her favorite.  Almost every morning when I tell her to go pick out her panties, she asks me, "are Cars in there?"  And then I have to tell her whether "Cars" is currently in the laundry or not.  And when she's wearing the Cars undies and has to go potty, she often tells me in a very urgent tone, "Mommy!  I need to go potty!  I don't want to pee pee in the cars!!!!!" 

Recently, she actually started watching the Cars movie.  Her favorite character is Mater, the hillbilly tow-truck.  This morning when it was time to pick out panties, I told Allie, "the Cars are clean today!"  As she was putting them on, I noticed she was looking very closely at them.  She finally said, "Mommy, where's Mater?"  I told her, "Well, these panties only have Sally and Lightning on them." She paused for a second and then announced, "I am going to ask Santa for panties with Mater."

Needless to say, "Santa" has had a hard time finding Mater undies for girls...

A separate; but related story:  We recently ran out of band-aids (because Allie loves putting band-aids on for any and every reason).  When I went to buy more at the grocery store, I showed her the selection and asked her to pick out the ones she wanted.  They had an almost endless selection:  princess-themed, pooh-themed, hello kitty, looney tunes, etc.  As soon as she saw that there were Cars-themed band-aids, she immediately knew that's what she wanted. 

This morning she told me, "Mommy I have a boo boo right here" and pointed at her thumb.  There was no boo boo on her thumb; but I knew she was dying to put on a Cars band-aid, so I indulged her and she carefully applied a cars band-aid to her thumb.  When we got to school, she held up her thumb to anyone who would look and proudly exclaimed, "This is a Cars band-aid!"