So Aila (the *first* niece) has a special place in her heart for all things Dora the Explorer. She watches the show at daycare, and has two Dora books, a small Dora doll (who she looks for by calling out "Dora, Dora"), Dora slippers, and one of Aila's first words was "packpack", her version of "Backpack", a character from the show.
A couple weeks ago, Aila went to a birthday party for a friend from daycare. A Dora-themed party, no less, and Aila got to take home one of the centre pieces, a Dora the Explorer piggy bank, about a foot tall. So Aila was proudly carrying Dora around the house and Maria was trying to explain that "you can put money in it", which perplexed Aila.
A few minutes later Maria hears the sound of cheap ceramic hitting linoleum, and Aila walks out of the bathroom holding Dora's head.
Now I'm not so sure why I decided to tell this story... oh yeah, because I liked my line.
So a few days later, when we had developed photos and there was one of Aila proudly holding Dora (pre-decapitation), Maria tells Hector about the incident and how Aila walked into the room holding Dora's head, "which had a totally Jagged Edge." And then, for attention, I said that Glenn Close could play Dora the Explorer. And they totally ignored me.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
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My first word was 'light'.
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