An American Girl

The Christmas before last CJ received An American Girl doll from her Tio and Tia. My sister and Junior found Josefina on Craigslist and it even came with a carrying case that stores the doll and her accessories. Apparently a young girl was selling some of her dolls from her collection.

I knew a little about the whole American Girl thing but had never been to the store. When my Mom gave CJ a catalog (carmen looooooves, adores catalogs) she looked at it cover to cover for weeks. And what I didn't know was that while I was at work Ruben and CJ would sit and look through the magazine, she asked him what each dolls name was and then he would tell her a little about each doll. So when we made our way to the store one Friday evening (and score that it wasn't packed at all!) she was super excited to see the dolls in person. She was yelling out, "Mommy there is Julie and Molly! And Kanani!" How the heck did she know that?! Ruben looked at me and said, "We have been looking through that catalog almost every night when you are at work." Hillllarious. We passed the display case for Julie and he tells me, "Julie grew up in the 70's and apparently she is adjusting to her parents divorce and moving to a new school..." (Wow, pretty heavy stuff if you ask me. You know, for a doll.) Ruben said after reading it over a million times he got to know their stories, definitely a Dad to girls!

Our trip there was fun, we didn't go with the intention of buying anything, just walking around and looking at everything was suffice. Because she is still on the young side to really get into the bigger scheme of the dolls she drifted more towards the "Bitty Baby" section which is more for her age group. And those Bitty Baby's are awfully cute.

As we headed out, baby girl had such a big grin on her face and that of course was the best part. :)

Rube, CJ and Josefina

On to the Bitty Baby's!

Had to put this one of Jenna just because she is so cuuuute ;)