Size does matter

Anyone ever play with a POLLY POCKET? I tried to avoid them, I've seen other Mothers cringe when they mention the dreaded "P" word. It's a doll that is VERY TINY, so of course all of her shoes, purses and accessories are even more tiny. I have a friend who has twin daughters **Hi Samantha!* and they had a HUGE bag of Polly Pockets. We went to visit her once and Faith dumped out the whole bag of miniatures, and I was like, "Oh my god, PLEASE don't stuff a doll up your nose!" I have another friend that has 2 daughters that collect another miniature nightmare called MY LITTLEST PET SHOP *Hi Diana!*, and of course when we went to her house Faith gravitated to their huge stash of itty bitty dolls. You'd think that as small as Faith is she'd want to play with big things, but I guess she figures she'd stick to stuff more her size.

This past birthday Faith got a LITTLEST PET SHOP set from her Aunt Kel, and at first I was thinking I might have to put that box up in the closet for about, oh, let's just say 10 years or so. But I digress, I opened it up and Faith fell in love with all things miniature. Want a cake the size of a pea? She's got one. Would you like to brush your hair with a brush the size of belly button lint? She's got one of those, too.

To add to the miniature horrors I bought Faith a POLLY POCKET limosine ( every girl needs a miniature pink limo you know), and it came with a POLLY POCKET doll, several fashionable plastic dresses, a few pets and shoes...lots and lots of shoes. And can I tell you how small these shoes are? Well, let's just say that I've pulled boogers out of my nose bigger than these shoes. When she brings them to us she just stuffs them in our face, and with our big adults hands we have to maneuver these itty bitty shoes onto these itty bitty feet. It's no easy feat (er, feet?). I keep schooling Faith on the need to keep all of these little pieces in one place, because if any of the pieces are left on the floor they will sucked up in the vacuum ( but alas, a mother must vacuum first for that to happen, and I don't think she's worried about that). Her response: " why would your vacuum want to eat the shoes?" Logical question from such a little girl.

I don't like those little pieces, but for now I'll put up with them because Faith really does love playing with her POLLY POCKET and her LITTLEST PET SHOP. I'll just have to learn to embrace the smallness of the pieces.

I tried taking some pictures of the pink high heal shoes ( they're very stylish, yes?). I thought that I'd set them next to a postage stamp to illustrate how small they are. Faith's response: "OHHH, Stickers!!!'" EEK! no, honey, not stickers. So then I asked her to hold the shoe in her tiny hands, I figured that ought to show how small they are. But I got so distracted by her messy hair and her big brown eyes that I don't think I accurately captured the smallness of the shoe. But either way, I'm still posting the pictures.