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Seven Random Playtime Facts

Kerri Aldrich — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:14:49 +0000

Okay, so, Maricar tagged me on June 13th, and I’m finally getting around to keeping up my end of the deal (less than a month later—woohoo!). Basically, it’s a Seven Random Facts About Me kinda thing. I figure I’ll do my best to relate it to playtime.

1. I used to hate to play outside as a kid. Hated it. Would always prefer to be in my room reading a book.

2. If my mom did kick me out, my friends and I would play Barbie for hours. My friend had the inflatable furniture, and we’d make cars by taping shoe boxes together.

3. My favorite books to read as a child were the Ramona the Pest books, anything else by Beverly Cleary, and everything by Judy Blume. I remember going into the children’s room at the library and scanning the shelves for anything by my favorite authors. That much hasn’t changed.

4. Basketball is my favorite sport to play. I haven’t played it in way too long.

5. I was here for the first round of Strawberry Shortcake, when she was cute and frumpy instead of stylish and sassy.

6. One of my favorite boardgames to play is THERAPY. (Recommended for ages 16 and up.)

7. The most advanced gaming console ever owned in my family growing up was the Atari 2600.

Okay, so, there you go. Now comes the part that I’m not so good at, the continuation of the tagging. If you participate, just let me know in the comments!

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Barbie over Bratz

Kerri Aldrich — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:14:51 +0000

And in the battle of Barbie versus Bratz, it’s Barbie by a nose!!!! Or, more realistically, a really long leg.

Here are the results:

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I wonder if the results would be the same if we were comparing Bratz to the new My Scene line of Barbies (like the one pictured above), which are described as “fun ‘n flirty dolls”. They do look creepily like the Bratz dolls, I think. I’ll stick to traditional Barbie, or maybe none at all. Strawberry Shortcake is looking better and better! How long can I keep her cool in our house?

Thanks to each of you who participated in our poll! Please share your input for our next poll about spending amounts for kids’ birthday gifts. It’s in the sidebar at the right, or you can vote by clicking here. Thank you!

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Nostalgia Toy #1: Strawberry Shortcake

Kerri Aldrich — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:47:06 +0000

This is the first post in a series where I’ll be sharing what were some of my favorite toys growing up. Specifically, toys that are still around and that are still entertaining my kids ALL these years later. I don’t know exactly how many posts will be in this series. I really am incapable of planning that far ahead. But there will at least be a #2, I promise. Where there’s a one, there must be a two.

Anyway, Strawberry Shortcake was one of my favorites growing up. I had a friend who lived on base just down the street from me. One of our moms would call the other, we’d meet halfway down the street, and then we’d spend hours playing with Strawberry Shortcake, Blueberry Muffin, The Purple Pieman, and all the others.

My sister and I had an entire Strawberry Shortcake themed room, from the matching Strawberry Shortcake canopy beds to the Strawberry Shortcake trashcan. We were surrounded by the little ~~tart~~ dessert.

My daughter now has a couple Strawberry Shortcake dolls. She’s not into her quite as much as I was, but does love the Strawberry Shortcake ballerina doll, and the kid-sized Strawberry Shortcake leotard that she would wear to ballet class.

It’s fun to see an old favorite of mine reappear after all those years. But, I do have a question. Where in the world did Strawberry Shortcake find the fountain of youth? I mean, I don’t expect the makers to age the dolls, but Strawberry Shortcake looks younger now than she did 25 years ago. Maybe not. Maybe she just got a new stylist. She certainly didn’t have that cute hip little hat when I was younger. It was frumpy and looked more like a strawberry on her head.

I don’t know. What do you think? I kinda miss the frumpy Strawberry Shortcake.

It does disturb me that my generation of toys is now being referred to as “vintage.” Does that make me vintage, too? Hmmm…mabye I need to get the number to Strawberry’s stylist. Or maybe I just need to start sporting this cute tee. Whaddya think?

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