Treasure Hunt

The sons have now officially split the basement in two, with a real wall instead of piled up dressers and wardrobes. This now means that they have a bit more room and that a lot of the stuff that had separated the room, needs to go. As we dig through dressers and wardrobes we are finding all kinds of treasures: Josh's two dozen Star Trek etc T-Shirts, my 4 seasons polymer clay totems that I had been looking for, more books than should be legal, vinyl records, Kids' school pictures (the early years), some bisgue to be painted and BART!

When Josh was young and cabbage Patch Kids the latest craze. I made both Josh and Casey a doll. They came as a kit, vinyl head, clothe body that I had to soft sculpt, stuff and attach to the head. josh named his Bart, Casey named his Barty. They wore new born sized clothes and had to go everywhere the boys went. The boys even had strollers for the dolls, pink ones unfortunately because the stroller just didn't come in any other color. The boys would get oddlooks from passersby when we went to the Mall. I suppose little boys weren't supposed to push strollers, but we didn't care.

One way I did notice that the boys played with the dolls that was different from the way I played with dolls is that Bart and Barty were just pals. Usually naked pals but that's because the boys liked to be in the altogether and why shouldn't their buddies do the same. When we all went out, then Bart and Barty were brought to me for me to dress, complete with sweaters or coats etc. When we took the boys to see Sesame Street Live in Baltimore, ernie and Bert came Along with Bart & Barty. I got to carry Bert and ernie while Josh carried bart on his shoulders, very much the way their father used to carry them. This time the looks Josh got was more in the 'oh my god isn't that cute' mode instad of what the heck is a BOY doing with a doll mode.

We recycled the books, threw out old Christmas wrapping and such, tucked my pewter ban animals away and will package Bart and Barty away very carefully. After all, they are part of the family.

I wonder what treasures will be found tonight.