Christmas memories

With Christmas just around the corner, I was thinking about some of the great (and not so great) gifts I remember from my childhood. One of them was Baby Alive! I must have been about 4 or 5 and was so excited when I woke up on Christmas morning and got a Baby Alive! Look at all the neat stuff you got with her! I found one on ebay with all her accessories! Of course the first thing I did was mix up some of that gross looking food and feed it to her. I was surprised to find out to make her eat, you have to press her chin and then her mouth would move up and down and it made this weird grinding noise. It was kind of weird, but I could overlook it. So I mixed up some kind of green food for her and fed her. But I was shocked when I realized that food was going to end up in her diaper!! I did not want to clean up that mess!! I remember Momma standing at the stove making gravy and biscuits and I showed her. She said, "she's your baby, you have to clean her up." I don't know if I ever even fed Baby Alive all of her food. I just didnt' want to have to clean all that up!

Then there was the shaving Ken doll. I don't know why, but I was excited to get a Ken doll who shaved. Plus, he had actual hair, not the molded/painted on kind. (And I thought this was a good thing.) I never wondered how it would happen, but I imagined his beard would really be like hair and I'd really get to shave it off. But when I opened him, I realized his beard was drawn on with a marker. And his shaver was actually just a little sponge that clamped in a plastic handle. You wet the sponge and shaved (or washed off) his beard! How disappointed I was! Then, to top it all off, his hair was kind of long and bushy and just stuck straight out after you took the plastic off his hair!! I felt so bad about not liking Ken all day long and Momma had to sleep with me that night because I "didn't feel good." Finally I said, "I don't like that Ken doll." She asked why & I told her his hair was too long. She told me we could cut his hair tomorrow, so I felt better getting that off my chest. And the next day he got a haircut and looked better.....

But there were some really good gifts:

Easy Bake Oven

My bicycle with the plastic basket with big flowers on it (the basket was the best part and I still have it!)

Little People house and little people (the smaller wooden kind, of course!)

A Kermit the Frog doll from my Papa that I still love

Dukes of Hazzard digital watch that played "Dixie"

Shaun Cassidy record (from my Papa--for my b'day)

Bradley  Dolls (my sister cried when she tried to clean hers and her eyes washed off!)

Gingham Girls paper dolls