Growing up in Wisconsin, we didn’t alive far from Middleton, the area of the American Girl headquarters. My aunt bought me my aboriginal doll, Samantha, back I was about 7 years old, and I went on to add Kirsten, Molly and Felicity to my collection.
Each summer we would boutique at a big baby auction that they acclimated to have. Dolls were aloof $50, clothes were beneath than $10. It was amazing.
This year Adeline began to appearance a lot of absorption in my American Girl dolls that I had brought out of accumulator and put in her room. We brushed their hair, talked about my favorites and back Mommy aboriginal got Samantha. I let her dress them and watched how she acclaim took affliction of them.
In backward spring, she started talking about accepting one of her own. After flipping through the archive that accustomed in our mailbox, she fell in adulation with Tenney, one of the newer dolls in the collection. She’s a absolute fit for Adeline, as Tenney lives in Nashville and wants to be a singer, aloof like Adeline.
American Girl attentive beatific us Tenney to analysis aloof in time to accord it to Adeline for her sixth altogether this year. Tenney lives in Nashville and loves to comedy guitar and sing. She’s a aerialist aloof like Adeline!
Over the accomplished three months, it has been admirable to watch Adeline abatement in adulation with her aboriginal American Girl doll, aloof like I did about 30 years ago. Tenney sleeps with her every night. Adeline loves to dress her, appearance her beard and accept her with her for day to day life.
She did an American Girl summer affected in July and I anticipate that opened her eyes alike added to the abracadabra of adventure and acuteness that comes with American dolls. At the end of the week, she arrive me to a tea affair at the camp, area she and Tenney wore hats and acclaimed a abundant anniversary of acquirements and creativity.
This abatement we are diving into the books together.
I adulation accepting a babe who loves things that I admired as a kid. It is such an abrupt allowance in motherhood.
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Did you accept any American Girl dolls as a kid? What about your daughters?
Disclosure: Thank you to American Girl for sending us a Tenney baby to review. All adulation for American Girl my own.