Another Barbie Bites the Dust

I'm tired. Avery just wears me out!! Today we were at Susan's house for playgroup and the girls (Anna, Avery and Maddie) all disappeared upstairs so we decided to follow them up to keep an eye out. We end up sitting in a play area and the girls go in Anna's room. We are just sitting around discussing books and other nice topics when Susan looks up and calls Anna in to see what she has. Anna had apparently gone downstairs and retrieved some scissors. Susan asked why she needed them and Anna said 'For Barbie'. Susan looked confused but I immediately knew what happened. I told Susan that Avery had climbed up onto Anna's bookcase, pulled down the Barbie that was up there and they had opened it up and were trying to get the Barbie out. Susan yelled "oh NO!" and shot up out of the room. Malinda looked at me like I was crazy and we went in. Susan started going "no, no, no, no..." and I started to feel two inches tall. Malinda and I go in and sure enough, the girls are sitting on the floor looking soooo guilty and Susan was standing there holding the ripped empty box that the Barbie was in. They had gotten the baby loose but couldn't get the mommy out. I somehow just knew that was what happened. I looked down at Avery and asked if she had climbed onto the bookcase and gotten down the doll. She nodded and hid her face. Stinker knew she had done something wrong. Maddie threw Avery right under the bus, she said that Avery climbed up all by herself, so that was pretty funny. The opened Barbie by the way, is the one that the American adoptive parents get in China when they pick up their new babies at the orphanages. A blonde mommy with an oriental baby. I found a pic of one:






so at least it wasn't some once in a lifetime gift representing a huge milestone in Anna's life. I swear this child is going to drive me over the edge one day!! Susan said that the box is salvageable and isn't' too upset. I would be.