Gaby has recently discovered the joy of the Polly Pocket toy franchise. If you've never seen them before, they are little plastic dolls that come with a vast wardrobe of rubber clothes that you can put on and take off. I'd say the average doll comes with at least 30 items of tiny rubber clothing. We first discovered them with Annabel and they have the same captivating effect on Gaby. She can spend hours playing with them in relative silence.
Now these are girly toys mind you. They have girlish alliterative names like "Polly Fab Flower" or "Groovy Glam Pony". So you can imagine my surprise when Gaby came to me last week holding a headless doll in her hand saying "Boyfriend's head popped off!". Now I have never seen a male Polly Pocket doll and I didn't think such a thing existed. Apparently it does. I'm not sure where the name boyfriend came from, but I thought the whole thing was hilarious. I replaced the head and gave it back. Several minutes later, she returned with the torso and the same story about the head having "popped off". Now it took some force to get the head back on so, the "popping" story didn't seem likely but I let it go and replaced the head a second time.
Then later that night, I saw the headless body of boyfriend lying on the living room floor with no head in sight.
"Gaby, where is boyfriend's head?" I asked
"Oh, it gone." She said.
I found it under the couch later that night. Tonight is the first time she's played with it since then, and incredibly, the head "popped" off again. This time I got a picture.
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