Oh no...

Yesterday I finally got around to changing Abbie and Molly's "Diamond Castle" Barbie batteries. See this post. Yes, two weeks after they got the Barbies they had played the songs so much that the batteries ran out and yes that was in January. I enjoyed the break for a while and then just never really thought about it until recently, because I found some Alexa and Liana costumes (they are the two Barbies they have from Diamond Castle) for the girls for Halloween.

Well, I am so sad to say that Molly's "Alexa" Barbie still doesn't work all the way!! It only lights up and won't sing the songs. Molly was so excited when she saw the new batteries and then her face was so sad when I told her it still wouldn't work. She looked at me so sadly with huge tears in her eyes. She handled it really well actually but it made me very sad for her. I have to say it made me pretty angry at myself for not changing the batteries when it stopped working. It may have been broken then and we could have either gotten it fixed or bought another. I know it is just a Barbie but the girls absolutely love playing with them. The Barbies dresses are actually starting to kind of fall apart because they have been played with so much over the past 9 months.

I looked on EBay also to see if I could get another one. And I can if I am will to pay $50, um don't think so:( And to make it worse (in my mind at least) they have plenty of the Liana dolls Abbie has for only $20, which is what we paid in the store, and we saw two at Marshall's the other day! Marty says they must have made more of the Liana since she is the blond haired Barbie with a pink dress, funny and true I'm sure. Alexa has brown hair and a purple dress. I guess even little girls prefer blonds to us brunettes, oh well!

So if any of you very few that read this know of anyone who has a "Diamond Castle" singing Alexa Barbie, I would love to buy it - for a reasonable price.

*** And yes at some point I will get around to blogging again. Lately I just haven't been up to it. There are just so many other important things. I guess I thought if I started with a small blog maybe it will get me back in the swing of things. We'll see!

Two weeks

Two weeks is all that it took for the batteries to run out of one of the Barbies I wrote about previously! (I am actually sort of surprised it took so long, I mean, they push the button all the time.) I have to say I am fairly excited, does that make me a bad mom? But today I have had to explain to Molly at least 10 times that it doesn't work. She brings me the Barbie and just keeps saying "On, On." Well, now let's see how long I can hold out to get new batteries for it:)

Molly and Abbie Christmas morning playing with the Barbies. This was the only pic I had of both of them with both the Barbies.

**Also, if you want to be added to my list of blogs let me know and I would love to add you:)

This song will get stuck in your head also..

For the last week, we have heard these same two songs over and over in our house. We knew that Abbie and Molly would love the singing Barbies from the Diamond Castle movie, but we didn't realize how much they would love them.  We are so glad they love their presents but we are really ready to take the batteries out of the Barbies. But I did get some adorable video of Molly singing along:

I will have to get one of both of them singing together. Abbie and Molly are absolutely adorable, I'm just wondering how to get the song out of my head:)

I also posted another video of Molly dancing and singing to the song on YouTube. Blogger keeps giving me errors.

The girls

The girls share a room together and every morning Abbie gives Molly massive amounts of toys to entertain her after they wake up. It is such a sweet big sister thing to do. She always gives her Barbies and then whatever other toys she feels like giving her that day.

Molly with all her Barbies (she is dancing)

Laying on top of all her Barbies

Last night Molly was crying awhile after the girls had laid down so I went in to check on her.  I went over to her crib and laid her down and gave her her blanket and she was fine.  I looked over at Abbie and she rolled over and tiredly says to me, "I can't give her Barbies all the time!"