Welcome Rebecca

For our schools Fall Fundraiser, we sold Little Ceasars pizza kits and Sports cups/popcorn buckets. Since we have 3 kids in school, we've started combining a lot of our efforts. For example, Preston gets all of the Lin's receipts, Shelby all of the Box Tops and Morgan got all of the Fall Fundraiser sales. (each year, we'll rotate) Morgan sold $501 worth of pizza kits and cups/popcorn buckets and won 3rd place for the entire school. The prize she picked out was an American Girl Doll.
Let me tell ya... it was quite the process picking out exactly which one she wanted. She wanted one that looked similar to her, but they don't make one with BOTH green eyes and short brown hair... needless to say, we went through a few tears because in her little mind that meant that combination was weird... sheesh... girls! Finally, we found one!!!!! It's actually one of the regular characters. Morgan picked "Rebecca" .
If you aren't familiar with American Girl, it's a book series. Each character represents a young girl living through a different period of American history. For instance: Addy is a young slave; Felicity is from the Revolution; Kit-the Depression;Molly-World War 2 etc. Rebecca is a young girl growing up in New York City in 1914.
Shelby loved the books when she was going through her American history craze. I think they're great because they're fun but still have something to teach the reader about what it would have been like to be a little girl during those periods.
Morgan hasn't really gotten into the books (mostly cause she HATES reading... wonder where she gets that from...) but she LOVES the dolls. She was SO excited when she got home from school and it was on her bed. (I couldn't find my camera, so you'll have to deal with cell phone pics..sorry. And she'd just come from dance. Don't want ya'll thinking I let my kid run around half naked in this weather)
Morgan was so sweet with her. She wanted to change her clothes for bedtime, so I dug out a pair of Morgan's old newborn jammies. We'll have to get some that fit Rebecca later, but these work for now. When it was time for bed, she read the book that came with her, "Meet Rebecca", out loud to the doll. I was listening to her read and noticed she was replacing "Rebecca" with "you" as if she was telling the doll a story about herself. It just melted my heart!