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CABBAGE PATCH HUNTING!

Really. I put a lot of thought into this Christmas gift so I feel it warrants an entry here.

So I decided that since Emily loves her dolls and doll clothes so much, I'd get on the bandwagon and buy her a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas (from Santa, of course). So I set out on the mission about 2 months ago. I had a gameplan. I was prepared. I'd scour the store shelves and find the perfect doll. I would NOT settle. No siree. I was looking for an Emily or a doll born on August 22nd. I could do this.

Target was my main hunting field. I'd go once a week (or sometimes 5 times a week but who's counting?) and check the doll shelves. After a few weeks of searching through Viola Latisha's and Jocelyn Mirabele's (who names these things anyway????) I found a possible contender: Emilee born on August 3rd. Hmm......... It was like it was so close but not good enough. Emilee? Of course it was Emilee. Emily is to plain-jane for a Cabbage Patch. So after going back and forth with "to buy or not to buy?" (oh and hiding it in a towel aisle "in case" I changed my mind and went back for it) I decided with the latter. I would keep hunting. After all, I still had a good 6 weeks left to find the perfect doll.

So hunt hunt hunt.... now we are at last week. I walked briskly to the Cabbage Patch display because after all, this was Black Friday I was shopping on and now people might see my Emily doll and steal it out from under me. All of a sudden I gasped and said out loud: "Oh my God Emily!" That warranted a stare from some woman also browsing the dolls so for some reason, I felt the need to tell her about my search (I wonder if everyone appreciates my chatty side or if people think I have a screw loose?) I picked the Emily doll up and put her in my cart. Then (and I swear I did this) I pushed my cart to a remote, desolate baby aisle to examine my doll. Why was I hiding with her? Anyway- oh wait, and I forget to mention her birthday was in August too! Ok so here I am, giving her the once over, and I just don't like her. She had jet-black hair and c'mon; I think you'll all agree that black yarn hair is just too severe on a doll. Maybe if she got a cut and style and some lowlights it would work but that day, the way she looked, she was not doing much for me. Damn! Now what?

So I walked back to the display. I looked and looked and then I found a cute one named Quinn Belen (Belen? What the hell is Belen? Helen with a typo or just some weird-ass name none of us have ever heard of? (Sorry to all the Belen's out there reading my blog!)) She was a redhead with freckles. I liked Quinn. She had pizzazz. I like when girls have boy-ish names but can still pull off the girly-thing (I swear I am still talking about Cabbage Patches here- bear with me). Anyhoot- now I had Emily and Quinn in my cart. But I keep looking. So obviously, something was telling me that Emily and Quinn just wouldn't do. I said to myself "how can you buy Quinn? If you buy any old doll, you could have picked out anyone you liked this whole time". I also thought about it and said "why would Emily want a doll named Emily? How foolish". So they both went back to the shelf. What a sad day for Quinn and Emily. They thought they were being adopted, I got their hopes up and bam- they were sent back to the Cabbage Patch, just like that.

So now I was free to choose whichever doll I wanted because I told myself that my search was really quiet assinine after all. So I scoured the shelves and then I found her: Marguerite Iola born August 15th. It was love at third sight. August 15th was my due date with Emily. Marguerite has brown hair, bangs and teeth (I always thought I hated the ones with teeth but they just worked on her). So now Emily has Molly and Marguerite. I wonder what she'll call this doll since we know she won't be pronouncing Marguerite for a while. This will be the next thing on my list; come up with a feasible nickname for Emily's Cabbage Patch. See: I really DO have a lot to think about on a daily basis.

Margie, Marge, Reetie, I (for Iola), Mar, Wilbur, Frances.......

posted by Gina M @ 1:41 PM