By Grace We Build

If you will remember, the three older girls have all “adopted” babies over the past few years.  Suzie has been awaiting her turn to be like Rachel, Ruthie, and Ellie (click on their names to see their babies).

Well, after Rachel and Ruthie got their dolls, we went to buy Ellie’s (they actually buy them with birthday money).  The store where we went had closed the “nursery” where the babies were sold. However, they had just closed the nursery a couple of days before, so Ellie was still able to get a doll (and even the doll she had been “dreaming” of).  For that, we were very thankful to God.  Isn’t He so kind?

But where would we get a doll for Suzie?  We were actually going to go to the actual factory/museum/shops this summer, which is just a few hours from home, but they had actually closed their shops.  Oh, this economy!!

So where is one to turn?  EBAY!

So now I introduce to you Dorothy Mae, Suzie’s little girl!  Suzie says, “She is very, very cute, and I love her!)

It was so fun to be able to give her the baby!  She had seen a picture, but she of course did not understand that I could buy her from the computer.  She truly thought that she would never get a baby because the store had closed.  Little did she know that Mommy had bought the doll (with her birthday money – was that kind of me to spend her money without her knowledge??).  So we were able to give her the baby on her birthday, and she was the happiest girl on earth!  Oh, her face when she realized what I was carrying!

We still need to do the adoption ceremony.  Maybe today…