Kai has been after me for a doll for the longest time. At his daycare there are a few baby dolls, but they're all "girl" babies, and I don't think appropriate for him so I set out to find him a boy doll. How hard could it be? Of course I started at the local holy grail of stores. I went to Target thinking they'd have to have at least one. I mean I can't be the only parent of a 2 year old boy who wants a doll right? well I got told by a very snotty 20 year old clerk that, "boys don't play with dolls!" Not only that, but I couldn't find one anywhere. Not online, not at Wal-Mart, ToysRUs, nothing! What is that about?! I remember as a child there being anatomically correct baby boys that went pee pee, and the Cabbage Patch Kids were both boys and girls. What happened?! My son's daycare teacher told me that the anatomically correct babies were legally banned. What?! For having a wee wee? I couldn't find ANYTHING unless it had a gun in it's hand and was wearing military gear. It's crazy that our society wants so desperately to program our sons to destroy instead of nurture at such young ages and that, for the most part, the public opinion and general American Parenting philosophy is in line with this. Anyway... sociological and political rant over...
I finally found a boy on the Oompa web site. 3 actually. they're lovely. Little anatomically correct rag dolls. Kai picked one out (and surprisingly did NOT choose the blond that looked like himself, but a green eyed brunette like Mama instead ;^) It arrived the other day. You know what he did? He immediately stripped it naked, undressed himself, got all excited because it had a wee wee, and marched off to the bathroom to go potty with "good boy". It was so cute! he sat the rag doll on his little potty, got up on the toilet, and went to the bathroom. Even wiped "good boy". Then he proceeded to dress it again and brush it's teeth with his infant tooth brush that was on his changing table.
Sigh...I don't want him to ever grow up...
I finally found a boy on the Oompa web site. 3 actually. they're lovely. Little anatomically correct rag dolls. Kai picked one out (and surprisingly did NOT choose the blond that looked like himself, but a green eyed brunette like Mama instead ;^) It arrived the other day. You know what he did? He immediately stripped it naked, undressed himself, got all excited because it had a wee wee, and marched off to the bathroom to go potty with "good boy". It was so cute! he sat the rag doll on his little potty, got up on the toilet, and went to the bathroom. Even wiped "good boy". Then he proceeded to dress it again and brush it's teeth with his infant tooth brush that was on his changing table.
Sigh...I don't want him to ever grow up...
