My own little Dora the Explorer
The magnifying glass, the "bug book" and the dora backpack were all Christmas gifts from Ginger and Spicey. Bobbin's favourite DVD at that time was Dora the Explorer, and in particular the "Bugga bugga" episode where she goes hunting for bugs. Bobbin would sit and play with my address book, pretending it was her bug book just like Dora's, so I figured she needed one of her own, since my address book is really the only place I keep everyone's addresses and phone numbers (I'm still very old fashioned in that respect :-)). So for Christmas, I... er... Ginger and Spicey.... got out an old photo album - the kind that fits one picture per page, rustled up some old nature and gardening magazines, and bought a bunch of bug stickers and scrapbook paper and made her a "bug book" just like Dora's. I just cut out the scrapbook paper into 4x6 rectangles, pasted a bunch of bugs on each one, slotted them into the album sleeves, and stuck a bunch of cut-out magazine letters that spelled out "My Bug Book" on the front cover, and voila. I bought a heavily discounted Dora the Explorer purple backpack (discounted because some of the Dora games that came with it were missing their tiddlywinks, cards, and dominoes) and threw the bug book and a 99-cent magnifying glass into it and wrapped it all up from the kitties. The kitties like bugs. And they also like Bobbin being occupied with just about anything but them. And so it was a logical gift. They're also very crafty and creative like that. They really would have done the whole thing entirely themselves if they had opposable thumbs and a tiny bit of cash.
Anyway, she loves it and drags it out on a regular basis and usually requires me to put the Dora DVD in the TV at the same time so she can play along.
I have to say when I first looked at the top picture, it didn't look to me like a little girl who is still 4 months shy of her 3rd birthday. She looks so much older here for some reason, to me.
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