Wood

This long post is mostly to give McGamma a smile.The girls have some amazing toy wealth, most of which has never been captured on snapshots, and most of which I'm guilty of occasionally playing with. Two years ago, John's mom gave the girls a wooden doll house, a wooden doll family to live within its walls, and furnishings, to boot. To know Mom Owen is to love her, and to know her is also to know that she likes helping things reach their full potential. She gave them not only a doll family but also grandparents and cousins. She gave them not only a kitchen, living room, and bedroom set, but also a playground, a dining room set, and a nursery set. It's all pretty fantastic, and the girls love playing with it.

One day the girls and I answered a knock on our door to find another dollhouse being thrust inside. Our neighbors in the next door apartment were moving, and they wanted to give us their granddaughter's dollhouse. We were happy to take it, and quickly turned the first dollhouse into "Grandma and Grandpa's House," using the "new" dollhouse for the main family's quarters. Funny....we had enough furnishings for TWO houses. Huh.


Anyway, it needs a bit of sprucing up, but with a coat of paint and some wallpaper, it will be as good as new.


The graffiti on the side of the house reads,
"No gandmas
onley 55 or oldr
No Famales
no Brts
no moms
no DaDs."

I think "Famales" is pronounced similarly to "tamales," and it was already there when it became ours. (Thank goodness, because only a Brt would write such a thing on the side of a family dollhouse.)

I showed you the graffiti so you could know how daring Millie was when she did this. (A Gandma! Famale! In the house!)

Last week, after I'd played with tidied the dollhouse while the girls were napping, Millie told me that she had to put herself and Grandma Owen on the couch in the main house because "We like to do this together."

McGamma, behold your little t.v.-head! (And that's Rocky in the corner...)



The girls only watch the occasional movie, in part because we have no television reception and in part because t.v. turns the brains of little girls to mush, but L.I. is a television paradise, and Millie wanted to recreate it here the only way she could.