Those KIDS!

We Skyped this morning with Tia Daniella, Zhou Zhou and Valerie. I'm describing it as a group conversation, but it was more like a two-way between Duckie and TLG (The Little Girl). During our 45-minute talk, the following things happened:

--Duckie showed us her "snockings" (stockings) and then her bare feet. That kid has a foot fetish.

--They both sang versions of The Dreidel Song that have no basis in reality. As in, "Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel/I made you out of toast/And when you're hot and buttered/That's when I love you most" (Rachel) and "Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel/I made you out of garbage..." (Duckie's version, we're not sure how the rest goes). 

--Rachel insisted on showing Duckie her newest unicorn, Princess Luna. Then Duckie brought out the unicorn carousel. Then Rachel brought in her "My Little Pony" collection. Then Duckie brought out one of her ponies...you can see that this is an escalating arms race of ponies/unicorns/fairies/princesses/etc. Heaven knows what it will be in a couple of years. Purses? Jewelry?

--Then each girl ran to her room and put on their princess clothes. Duckie wore a gorgeous pink princess dress with a crown and ruby red slippers; Rachel got into a leotard with a tutu attacked and a crown of flowers in her hair, both gifts from Grandma and Grandpa and Amanda & Jenn. Needless to say, they both looked ADORABLE. I am quaking at the idea of both of them going out arm in arm to hit the New York club scene when they're, oh, 18 or so. Stunning in their own individual ways, they will make quite a pair attracting men by the score.

Daniella and I agreed that it would be really great if they could just regularly compare clothes and toys in real life, which means that I guess we'd need to move to Queens to make the process easier. I had a vision of us piling all of Rachel's possessions in the car and driving over to Daniella and Darryl's apartment and unloading it so the girls could have a feast of dresses and toys. And then Daniella and Darryl and Duckie doing the same thing at our house a few miles (or blocks) away.