Blue Baby is Blue Baby, Dammit

So Twinklette is just a teensy bit obsessed with babies and she's particularly interested in her new cousin, Baby Sophie. She has a baby doll named Baby Sophie, but sometimes in that doll's absence, other inanimate objects stand in for Baby Sophie the doll. The items that she has carried around and referred to as Baby Sophie include but aren't limited to a Boo Boo Buddy, a Cuisinart attachment (not a sharp one), a small rock, a pile of baby wipes, and a rubber ducky. When Baby Sophie is on her mind, she will find anything in sight and pretend it's her cousin, and, yes, I think her Baby Sophie fixation is adorable and I encourage it.

Alright...so she spent the night with my in-laws a few weeks ago and she came back the next day calling her favorite doll, Blue Baby, "Baby Sophie." (I realize the example linked is not wearing blue...it's the closest approximation I could find, and Blue Baby is really the only one of her kind I've ever seen. She was meant for Twinklette). Well, I like Blue Baby because I got it for Twinklette after she saw it in Playthings and fell in love with it, and it's the first doll she named herself and it's her special doll, and I want Blue Baby to remain Blue Baby. I insisted that, no, it's Blue Baby, and here's your other doll Baby Sophie. She reverted to the original names and all was right with the world.

But for the next few weeks, every time we saw my in-laws, they kept talking about how she was calling Blue Baby "Baby Sophie" (as if she doesn't call everything that), and I just really felt like they were on some big campaign to have her favorite doll be named Baby Sophie. At one point, Blue Baby came up in conversation (as she so often does), and my FIL said, "There's no more Blue Baby. She calls her Baby Sophie." I just about jumped down his throat to preserve the integrity of the first doll my daughter named.

I know it's kind of dumb, but the way they were trying to change Twinklette's favorite doll's name has been bothering me...I just wanted a record of it. It's not the big things they do, really; it's the sum of all the little things.