Raising a Girl » Dora http://www.raisingagirl.com about raising my daughter Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:37:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Birthday parties http://www.raisingagirl.com/birthday-parties/ http://www.raisingagirl.com/birthday-parties/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:47:18 +0000 nw http://www.raisingagirl.com/?p=149 The Kiddo was invited to her first non-family birthday party this weekend.  It’s for one of her classmates in pre-school.  It should be interesting since the time is right about when she would normally go down for a nap if it were a school day, so I plan on letting her stay up a little bit later Saturday night so she’ll wake up later on Sunday and hopefully be just about ready for her nap when we leave the party.

I still have to go shopping and find a gift for her friend.  Her friend’s mom said anything Dora would be fine, her life revolves around Dora right now.  I looked at W@l-M@rt the other day but their selection of Dora stuff was rather pathetic, so I’ll be going to ToysR#s probably sometime tonight or tomorrow to see what they have to offer.

]]> http://www.raisingagirl.com/birthday-parties/feed/ 2 Fun with Playdough http://www.raisingagirl.com/fun-with-playdough/ http://www.raisingagirl.com/fun-with-playdough/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:18:44 +0000 nw http://www.raisingagirl.com/?p=95 Tuesday evening, my husband decided we should go to the toy store and buy the Kiddo some new playdough and some of the play sets that go along with it, since a) she really likes playing with playdough and the accessories when she is at school, and b) it would give the two of them something to do while he stayed home with her the next day.

So off to ToysRUs we go, and we bought a Dora themed fun-factory, the food making set, and a package with smaller tubs of playdough and oodles of little extras – playdough scissors, letter stamps, etc.

And of course, she could hardly wait to open them when we got home.  Heck, my husband was even excited to open them up. LOL

We probably sat and played with the playdough for about 30 minutes before it was time to get her ready for bed, at which point we would get an emphatic, “NOoOooooo! Pay pay-dough!”  We were finally able to convince her that she’d be able to play with the playdough the following day.

Which she did.  In addition to watching Lilo and Stitch several times.

I’m sure I’ll be picking bits of playdough out of the carpet for while to come.

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