wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by wanderingfrog on Mar 11, 2013 20:06:17 GMT -5
The blurb on the cover of this one is "Can a baby doll have two mommies?" That's surprisingly progressive for 1991. Admittedly, Heather Has Two Mommies had already been published by then.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Mar 14, 2013 1:43:20 GMT -5
^ yeah looking back, it really was...I didn't pick up the reference at the time though I simply thought it was cute that they had "joint custody"
In real life though, I'm not so sure I would allow Karen to share the doll even though the problems were resolved. It is an expensive and delicate doll not to be toyed with, and even though Karen was generous, she seems to have boundary issues with everyone and her parents needed to teach her, but that's just me. They could have done with another doll of theirs.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 9, 2013 13:16:25 GMT -5
I was never a big doll fan. I did act out stories with three baby type dolls of sorts as a kid. I remember their names were Peter and his younger brother Jonathan and Peter's girlfriend Kimberly. I loved soft stuffed animals. Andrew saved the story in this book for me with his hilarious names for Hyacynthia. Hippopatumus at the end was my favorite. It reminded me of how much I loved playing the game "Hungry, Hungry Hippos," as a kid and later in life sharing it with preschoolers.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jun 18, 2013 10:25:14 GMT -5
That's rather random!
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LadyDru
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Post by LadyDru on May 19, 2020 8:35:36 GMT -5
This was the first LS I EVER read so I have a nostalgic love for it..I do feel like Karen should have just said she lent it to someone (like Mika says in a Sailor Moon episode) as it was true..had thought her anger towards Kristy was savage and funny at the same time..especially the letter..reading it as an adult, I do agree it was a sign of miscommunication..on both sides..Kristy should have asked "are your parents okay with it, though?" since she should have doubts on whether they would go for something like that and then Karen would have been able to say "it's just a loan."
Nancy getting upset about the blame being placed on Kristy came a little out of left field and makes her seem like a mini-adult than a 7 year old kid..and I have to say, if Karen DID leave Hyacynthia over at Watson's, I don't know why that is an issue since she would be safe there..
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 29, 2023 21:47:46 GMT -5
Lisa's parents went to England and called the Little House on their last stop to see what the kids wanted. Way to wait until the last minute, Grandma. This seems like a conversation that they should have had before the trip. Then Lisa and her mother had a long, casual international daytime call. How expensive was that? Karen and Andrew got good gifts (the doll and a double decker bus). Lisa got a shawl (ok). Seth got David Copperfield. They went to London and brought him a freaking book! Hyacynthia could have been Hyaamy, Hyajessie, Hyamelanie, or Hyasamantha. I have to say that Hyacynthia kinda flows. Karen said that Ricky was Hyacynthia's daddy. Then on the next page she picked the doll up to show the class, and he whistled at it. Lol, what kind of daddy? Nobody in three pages mentioned that Nancy was in the hospital for 6 days to get her appendix out. That's like 3x as long as they keep women who give birth! Her scar was squiggly? What kind of hospital was that? The doll had a bowl cut. She kinda looked like Mary Anne after her makeover.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 30, 2023 11:47:58 GMT -5
Lol!
Yeesh. Poor Nancy. I have a bumpy scar on my wrist from a car accident eight years ago and was stitched up in the hospital. It’s never smoothed out. I just googled appendix scars and I don’t know why. Appendicitis freaked me out as a kid.
She did! Cute. A precious doll like that is a good gift…after you’re grown you can pass it on to children or family members.
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