Tuesday, April 10, 2007

bad combination.

yesterday brody recieved a special package in the mail for her birthday from a kind relative.
inside was a cute china-faced doll, with cherries on her little doll hat.
unfortunately, because the doll had been sent in the mail, the delicate face had a few small cracks.
brody and i were playing with the doll for an hour, taking the doll on pretend adventures, brody naming the doll "cherry"...hiding under the blanky from the pretend monster...
suddenly brody grabbed cherry by the hat, and came up from under the blanket holding not only cherry's hat, but half of cherry's head as well. thats right, in the midst of the monster-hiding adventure, i guess the crack had grown to span the entire face of the doll, causing the top-half of the face to come apart from the bottom half, and unfortunately brody had the first look at this brutalized doll. i felt so bad for brody, she was pretty upset about the whole thing, and the doll was honestly un-fixable. i had to discreetly throw the two halves of dear cherry in the garbage after wiping the many tears from brody's face and assuring her that we would get a new doll.

moral of the story? don't combine china faced dolls-MAIL-and 2 year old girls!

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