New Doll House:

So, first of all...look how BIG my little girl looks playing with her doll house!  I can't believe it.  She looks so long and lean and not like a cute little chunky baby anymore.  I guess I need to come to grips with the fact that she is closer to 4 now, than she is 3.

Yep, that's right, I said doll house. 

So.....for Christmas, Cie-J and I talked about getting Alanna a doll house and ended up settling on a Barbie house.  We found a fantastic deal and jumped on it. Then we got it home and put it together and realized that it had a million tiny little parts and pieces.  And she was really getting into the Barbie image and ideas and it just wasn't a road we wanted her to go down at three years old.  (Have you ever seen a modest Barbie?  They all look like hookers!) It was a hard choice.  She cried when we sold it. =(  BUT.....she told us that she loves this doll house much more than her Barbie house and she plays with this one every single day.  All around, it was a win win.

A big wooden doll house with stairs AND an elevator.  A piano, a princess bed, a toilet (her favorite part), and it's way taller than the other one.  It's more her age and a little more innocent.  

We are happy.  She is happy.