They’re a part of many girls’ lives from the beginning.
Made of porcelain, cloth or plastic, they come in various sizes, usually newborn-bald or with long locks of hair.My favorites are the ones with a story behind them, like this one that my maternal grandmother made for me when I was a child.
Since dolls are made to be played with, she perches atop a bookshelf in the playroom so that the girls can handle her – carefully – when they wish.
An interesting conversation ensued after I picked our daughters up in the afternoon.
Our eight-year-old was hitting the doll on the leg with her pencil.
Her sister said, “Stop spanking her. She hasn’t been bad.”
Reply from eight-year-old: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God!”
Sister: “She doesn’t have a soul!”
That’s the most interesting theological conversation I’ve heard in quite awhile!
I don’t know how much longer dolls will fill the playroom, line the shelves or ride along with us in the car. But for now, they’re still an integral part of our girls’ play.
Does your daughter spend much time playing with dolls? Are there any with special memories attached to them?
What a fun post – and I love the conversation between your daughters 🙂
Sophie loves her Sesame Street friends, but dolls? Not so much. Trains – Oh my yes!
Bella however, LOVES her baby dolls. Always has, even as an infant. It's so cute to watch her cuddle and give hugs and kisses.
My older daughter has a couple of dolls, but she really plays with her bears. "Baby Bear" is her favorite, and you would be amazed at the adventures that Baby Bear has. If I say, "Let's go to the pool," I hear, "Baby Bear has a pool in her backyard." Baby Bear is always having cupcakes — pink ones. It's such fun!
Aurie,
It is so interesting to observe what objects our little ones attach themselves to. Our younger daughter has always been a stuffed animal lover. Even now, when I make her whittle down her ever-growing collection, I think it literally pains her to have to give away some of her animals.
Nikki,
That is so sweet!! Both of my girls still have the stuffed bears they slept with as babies – Brownie was my older daughter's and Pinky was the younger one's. (Yes, they got their names from the color they were. Very original, I know!)
My daughter loves being a "mother" to her dolls. I love watching her do things with them that she sees me doing with my own children! I pray I can always be the example she needs! Thanks for this fun encouragement! Blessings!
Tracey, my daughter is just as original. She has Baby Bear who used to be Pink Bear…until my other daughter was born; then she needed a baby, too. She also has Grammy Bear, Daddy Bear, Mama Bear, Brown Bear, Black Bear, and Orange Bear. I think that's all of them. We actually had to replace her and her brother's bears, so the "Bear Fairy" came to visit one night last year. If you're interested in her visit, here's the link:http://nikkis-notes.blogspot.com/2010/10/bear-fairy.html
Nikki,
Loved this post! Such a cute story and so well-written! Thanks for sharing the link with us.
Thanks, Tracey! It was fun to write and fun to act out.
My daughter loves dolls too, and would love to play with hers a lot more, but she gets roped into her brother's cowboy games, building projects and traffic jams more often than not!!! 🙂 I'm waiting for the day she puts her foot down and decides she won't play "boy" games anymore – she really does love her dollies!
Tracey,
My blog "Counting It All Joy" and google account has been disabled, I have no idea why and have contacted google about it. I'm sorry to contact you on your blog post about this but I had no idea how else to contact you. Please pray I can discover what has gone wrong with my account or why it has been removed off the internet by google. I feel pretty-much devastated that this has happened and really hope and pray it can all be recovered. My children's blogs have been removed too – they were connected to my blog.
🙁 Clara
Clara,
I'm so sorry to hear that! I hope that Google can restore everything back to the way it was. I will pray that this can all be resolved quickly so that you and your children can get back to blogging.
Thanks for letting me know what was going on. I did try to access your blog just a couple of minutes ago and got the message from Blogger that it had been removed. Maybe all of this will prove to be an interesting post you can share with us soon!
Tracey – Thank you. I've discovered that I'm not alone with this problem, it was a google glitch that happened to about 150,000 users (they think) on Sunday (US time). They are in the process of trying to restore accounts, but some people are saying all their emails are wiped. I'm praying not – so much for this modern age of communication – my husband wrote me a lot of love letters via that email address right from our courting days! 🙁
I guess the lesson in all of this is to make sure you back EVERYTHING up to your computer!
The Lord is faithful, and here I am with my google account restored. And yes, I did write a blog post about it!!! 🙂