Kidbits

Played Barbies with Sis tonight (yes, she has a couple.  From the in-laws.)  After dressing her blonde Barbie--named Lizzie--in a fabulous lamé outfit with purple kinky boots, she announced that it was time for the party!  A party to benefit the baby seals.  'Cos Lizzie has a doctorate--"but doesn't need to be called 'Dr.'"--and is also a wealthy philanthropist who arranges events to raise money and awareness of environmental issues and endangered animals. For $5 a ticket.  She also has a few dolphins.  And a monkey.  

All her friends came, in their skimpy dresses fit only for a red-light district--Charlotte, Julia, and my doll Violet, who owns a pizzeria, which she works at in a purple and silver lamé dress.  And brown leather kinky boots.  I added short pants for modesty.  (BTW, did Barbies always have such huge butts and hips?  Or is this the Kardashian model?  Velcro was busting out all over.)

Then they had a gymnastics competition, after taking off those kinky boots, because Lizzie is considering doing the Olympics.

Her mom told her she could.

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Summer Fun 2013: Last Travel Tidbit

I can't believe, in my post about Texas, I forgot to tell you about what we did as soon as we got there.  Gommie whisked Sis and her AG dolls upstairs and introduced them to her own precious babydolls.  Mind you, these dolls are so special that Pop has only seen them twice and I've only seen them once (though, quite out of character, she let us take them on a weekend trip to Toledo Bend once--there's a picture of me on the swing with one.)  I don't really know what transpired during the doll play, as they were secreted away.  But I know it was a special time.

Meanwhile, Pop and Bud were downstairs tying knots.  Bud had picked up a knot book for the airplane ride and had been practicing. Pop is the king of knots, since so many of them are used in fishing and such, and so helped him with more:  square knot, bowline, clove hitch, half-something-hitch, Palomir knot (?), and more.  I remember Pop teaching me a knot once, something about a frog, a hole, and a tree.  I'm sure Bud is a better student!