American Girl's of my Girl

My daughter received her first American Girl Bitty Baby doll during her third Christmas. She has loved that doll from day one and named her Sarah.

On her seventh birthday she received a Just Like Me American Girl Doll.  Naming her Jennea, she now has loved two girls equally from that day forward. 

This summer she came across information about the new online feature of a virtual university through American Girl.  Every new doll comes with a private access code to play. Along the same concept of Webkinz, but a human-version with the parental thumbs up on the morales and values of the American Girl company that continues to exist in the virtual world.

For my daughter's 12th birthday she received her third girl, Becca, and now loves her three equally. 

And - not missing a beat - my son picked up the box and enjoyed some kind-hearted brotherly kidding about all the fun of the American Girl craze.

With all this pre-training that my daughter is giving herself in imaginary play of having dolls as "children", I am looking forward with confidence to the chapter in her life when these faux kiddos became real for her. I embrace my daughter's enjoyment of imaginative play, of dolls, and even virtual worlds of just having fun. She works so hard in her academics and extra activities, that I am so glad she takes time to be a kid too. 

Capturing the American Girl's of my girl so we don't forget this part of growing up in the early years of the 2000's.