Our American Girl

Katherine and I are off bright and early tomorrow morning. I’m about to be a proud Godmother to a certain little baby boy up in New York City. When the trip was being planned, I thought it would be fun to bring Katherine along as well. My parents expressed an interest in coming down to the city and of course Aunt Colleen and Uncle Sven call NYC home sweet home. Suddenly it was a little family get together and what better time we thought than to do the big American Girl experience for Katherine. Right now she’s more excited about the airplane ride and the hotel room. As I’ve said before we’ve found measuring time in the “number of sleeps” is a good way for her to understand how much time until a certain event happens. Well she knew this morning that it was only one more sleep until she got on the airplane. So naturally she told us that she didn’t want to go to school and just wanted to go right back to sleep instead.

The American Girl catalog has been coming to our house from quite some time although Katherine has only recently took a real interest in it. I dug it out this week to start reviewing it with her to see what type of doll she may be interested in. Looks like she may be going the historical doll route, with an interest in Julie (1974). We’ll see once she gets to the store. Being a four year old with no concept of money, she’s also informed me that her Julie doll will need a pet and a bed and some clothes and…well…she needs a lot according to Katherine. This maybe a big lesson in wants versus what Mommy and Daddy can afford.

I did drop the ball and totally forgot to make the café reservation a gazillion months in advance, so of course it was booked solid. So we will be forgoing that experience, which is fine since I don’t think the seating times were going to work out very well with our schedule. However, rumor has it that another American Girl store is opening up this summer at Tyson’s Corner in the DC area. I’m thinking another visit is needed with Gram Coberly for a meal at their café.

Yes I have seen the weather forecast for Raleigh. Looks like we should be ok getting out tomorrow morning and I’m hoping we’re back just before the predicted big storm hits Monday afternoon.

Oh and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Teddy had his 9 month appointment yesterday. He’s one healthy boy! Weight currently 19lbs. 14 oz. which I was surprised to learn is actually below the 50th percentile. I’d hate to see the size of those 9 months olds in the 90th percentile.