American Girl Dolls

For a decade now, my wife has run Oh, You Beautiful Doll - an internet showcase for American Girl doll clothes. We must now have three dozen of these $100 dolls in the house who serve as models for the doll clothing she sells. And, with two daughters of our own they, of course, must have their own dolls.

A Bitty Baby each. A pair of Bitty Twins...each. And two or three American Girls...each. Which aren't always put away at night. I keep waiting to wake up one morning to a cry of anguish as we discover that our golden retriever has chosen to worry away a leg, or an arm, or a face of vinyl...just to figure out how it feels.

Anyway...one of the spectacular marketing pieces to American Girl is their collection of books and movies. With the weather a bit too hot for spring playtime, youngest daughter V asked to watch "Felicity" yesterday afternoon. And, once I get over the idea of John Schneider as a colonial father, it's a good movie. Just enough colonial politics to give the girls a sense and an idea of what happened then and also helps to reinforce what we are reading at night in the books that the movie is based on.