The Little "Mommy"

Much to the chagrin of grandparents, etc., Amelie refuses to play with dolls. She will not touch them. Anytime she has hold of one, she gets a very distrustful look on her face -- almost like someone just handed her a snake. Well, a snake may be a bad example since she actually loves to pet them when we go to the zoo. How about...a cheeseburger. She despises those. So, for the sake of this story doll = cheeseburger. But I digress. Badly. Anyway, she does not like dolls. (Or cheeseburgers.)

Even with a dislike off dolls, almost everything she plays revolves around there being babies and mommies. We have a Mommy Thomas and a Baby Thomas (The Tank Engine), a Mommy Mikapeen (Lightening McQueen) and a baby Mikapeen. Whether she is playing Ponies (as in My Little Pony) or even Transformers with Jack, there are babies to be taken care. Jack gets so frustrated when his Transformers are preparing for battle and Amelie's start discussing plans for a birthday party for Megatron. (Of course, Jack usually gets his revenge later when Transformers start attacking the My Little Ponies. Never a dull moment)

For once, Amelie let me take a video of her playing. It is pretty darn cut to see her acting like a little Mommy and tucking in Pup-Pup and New Puppy.

Oh, and for the record, she picked her own outfit.
Also, when we tuck her in we usually leave her face uncovered.