sliding with her favorite baby, originally uploaded by aidansmac.
Well OK baby Kayla has been here quite a while but she finally has a name. A friend of my mother’s gave B a doll for winter solstice. Peter is from Uganda and wanted to get her a black doll. It was love it first site. She drug her everywhere with her. Suddenly one day she asked where ‘black baby’ was? All issues of political correctness aside, I found it amazing that a two year old would refer to a doll by color. She has many dolls (first girl with two older brothers; I think all my friends feared she’d be cuddling Thomas the Tank Engines) that she plays with and walks around the house, but this is the first doll she takes with her and hunts the house for. Her love of this doll made me think of something I had seen on YouTube A Girl Like Me
Today black baby has been held on the potty, read to, nursed, put down for a nap, woken up from her nap, put down for a nap, woken up from her nap, given a sponge bath and towel dried. Sometime during the sequence I again asked what her name is. None of her dolls have name but I figure as she gets older they may start to. Skay laaa I was told. “Celia?” I asked. Blank look . “Kayla?” I asked. “Kaylaaa!” was the replay.
