Paper Dolls

Remember the good old days of our childhood when we could spend hours playing with our cut-out dolls?  My sister and I used to have lots of them.  I remember Wendy's favorite set was called "Heavenly Blue Wedding" and the wedding party had the most beautiful clothes.  My corresponding one was a lot less ornate, but I never let Wendy know that I liked hers best.  She used to say that she wanted a dress just like the one her paper doll had.  We also had paper dolls modelled after the celebrities of the day - I had Ann Southern (I imagine no one remembers her now), and Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, and the Disney Sleeping Beauty set among others.  We played with those the way our granddaughters play with Barbies today.

Mum also taught us to make our own paper dolls from the Sears catalogs.  I in turn  taught my girls that trick and for a number of years all our catalogs were cut up to make rooms to furnish and characters to dress and name.  They loved doing that.

My 7-year old granddaughter, Brooklyn, was feeling under the weather today so I was recruited to babysit while her parents went to work.    Knowing she just had a sore throat and slight fever I decided not to go unarmed.  I went into my stash of stuff for visiting grandchildren and found a paper doll book with six Disney princesses and lots of beautiful clothes.  Brooklyn had never seen anything like that so I was happy to introduce this fun play to her.  I was just glad the dolls and their wardrobes now come  in punch out form so we didn't have to use scissors to cut each individual piece out.

It was a fun day with a little not-too-sick girl.

Getting Air

I spent some time with Rob and Cindy's kids last week. They have a new trampoline so we had some fun time jumping and snapping action photos. If Brooklyn looks slightly odd in the pictures it's because she has a patch on one of her eyes to correct a lazy eye. She likes to draw pictures on them before she puts them on (a new one every day) and the patch on that particular day contained two large black dots...a kooky, creative kid. One of her previous patches contained a drawing of an eyeball!

Anyway, this blog is about jumping so here are some pics. It's such fun to see the grandkids having so much fun.

You can tell Brooklyn has had some dancing lessons - what great form she displays!

For such a light, slight little girl, she can bounce pretty high.

And her landings are perfect. Notice the dotted eye patch in this picture.

Anson figured that sometimes just running along the edge was fun enough.

And they jumped together, separately.

Anson has discovered that part of the fun is just laying on the tramp getting bounced while the other guy does all the work.

But then he takes his turn jumping too.

I'm told this is called the Donkey Kick. I'll take her word for it.

What a happy time! Go Anson!