Baby

This week Molly has discovered the wonderful world of baby dolls. On Easter she was trying to take away her friend Avery's Cinderella baby doll, so I grabbed Jocelyn's old Belle baby doll to keep the peace. Since then, baby Belle has gone EVERYWHERE with us. As soon as we get ready to go in the car, head to bed for naptime, or leave the room we're in for any reason, Molly immediately looks around frantically: "Baby? Baby!"

Today we were cleaning the house, and I uncovered 3 or 4 more baby dolls. I put them in a pile on the floor near Molly, and it was like Christmastime! She just looked down with a ginormous grin on her face... and finally yelled "BABY!!" She found one baby doll who seems to be the new favorite. Bathtime lasted all of 2 minutes - enough time to wash dinner out of her hair and get her out as quickly as possible, since it was clearly cruel and unusual punishment to pull her away from Baby long enough to clean up. Neither Ava nor Jocelyn ever really took to playing with baby dolls, and this is the first toy Molly has really attached to, so it's been fun watching her walk around with her baby.