Julie names the toys she is playing with by any distinguishing marks ...ponies with hearts on their haunches are named Two Hearts, a rainbow on the bum of a horse is named Rainbow, ...you get the idea.
The other day I had just braided a Barbie's hair. I asked Julie what her name was. She looked her over, then said, "Braid Hair." And that is what we called her.
It actually seems a better way of naming people, so you wouldn't forget so easily. "Hey, there comes pointy nose!" or "Hi, Big Butt! How are your kids, Curly Hair and Freckle Face?"
I guess people could get offended. ;) Thank goodness Barbie was ok being Braid Hair.
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kind of sounds like native american names like "sitting bull" or "flies with eagle". she is old school.
Natalie calls her favorite baby doll "white baby" (because her torso part is white fabric and the rest of her is hard plastic flesh-colored, and the doll is naked 90% of the time). At first we tried to correct her so people wouldn't think she was racist, but it's stuck.
Your kids look so happy! Julie is cute--I miss her. And you too, of course.
At least her names are accurate. Joy's "Red Bear" and "White Bear" are appropriately named, but for the longest time she couldn't say "brown" so her brown bear was dubbed "Yellow Bear." She's now been saying "brown" for months, but has felt no need to change the corresponding bear's name. Wouldn't want to confuse him, I guess.
Was that big butt, curly hair and freckle face comment directed at me? It's cool.:) Izzie is the same, except less descriptive. She has twin boy and girl American girl dolls. They are named "boy" and "girl" and most of her babies are just "baby," she refuses to name them. She does name a random imaginary friends. I love this age.
Nathaniel's favorite blanket was "green blankie". We would have been saved lots of frustration if he had used Julie's moniker method (because of course, of all the green blankets we had, "green blankie" was not one of them. It was white with red and blue patterns and a red ruffle. Go figure.)
I think it would be hard to distinguish between all of the people named "big butt"
-Hillary
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