thanks to thin mints...

Last month, E's Girl Scout troop went to the American Girl Store for lunch. They were "flying up" from Brownies to Junior Scouts and we wanted to do something special with the Girl Scout Cookie money that we saved for the past three years.
Here are some pictures from the day.

Here's E and Josephenia next to the display of her home.

We took this one for K, it's the bedroom of her doll, Kit. (If I were a little girl I would have wanted Kit. She's a ten year old during the Great Depression who's prized possession in a typewriter.)

This craked me up. Each bathroom stall had a "hanger" for a doll.

Even the food was adorable. The other mom that went ordered this mini burger, hot dog, and mac and cheese. They were so dainty, this picture doesn't quite show how adorable the food was.

The dolls got a special seat next to the girls. If someone didn't have a doll they could chose one of several to be a guest for the meal.

I had a very tasty quiche and most of the girls had the Tic Tac Toe Pizza. The dining room was very elegant and the girls were treated like special guests, the tables had these little boxes filled with conversation starters like "Where do you envision yourself in ten years?" and "How would you feel if someone tells you that you can't do something because you are a girl?"

Check out the dessert.



It was so nice to see a bunch of nine-year-old girls playing with dolls that looked like normal girls. They got a glimpse of what girls their age from different ethnic backgrounds and eras in American history were like.

You can't walk down the "girl" asile in any toy store these days with out getting hit on by whorish Bratz and trampy My Scene Barbie dolls. There's even some line of little plastic animals that wear eyeshadow look like they're about to head out clubbing.

I really like AG dolls, not only because they don't look like starlets on their way to rehab, but because of their focus on American history. The books that go along with the dolls are very well written and do an excellent job of teaching history within the context of the stories. Sure the dolls are expensive and yes the AG store is all about consumerism, but when faced with the alternative,


I'll take AG any day.