A baby with a pacifier

We went to FAO Schwarz to get Katie her special panty present. There are so many babies to choose from, including some that are pretty life-like and rather creepy (as in the picture in the last post). Katie doesn't like the more real looking babies, they are too heavy for her (and that's fine with me and Nana). She likes the ones just like she has (a brand called Corolle) and falls in love with one on the floor with a pacifier. But the store doesn't stock her any more and they won't sell the floor model. So Katie settles for one that is almost exactly like Baby Lizzie because it comes with a pacifier. And no, you can't buy just the pacifier. Nana also buys 2 new outfits for the baby.

When we get home Katie immediately takes the baby's clothes off and puts on a new outfit so we take the pacifier and put it on a string around the doll's neck. Katie seems to name her dolls after things she she knows, and having run out of Berenstain Bears, she names her new baby Rosie after Rosie the train and Rosie, Caillou's little sister. Rosie comes out to dinner (picture below), but the pacifier is not there when we come home.

Where's Baby Rosie's pacifier? It's on a hot pink string so it's harder to miss. I retrace my steps back to the restaurant, I tell our waitress who then asks the people at the table we were sitting at to get up and promises to call if she finds it, and retrace my steps home. I told the doorman to be on the lookout in case he sees it. Peter retraces our steps later when he takes Meadow out. No pacifier. The next morning Katie keeps talking about how we lost Baby Rosie's pacifier. We leave to go see Nana and there is the pacifier hanging from the doorknob outside our apartment!

We can't figure this out. The doorman says he'd love to take credit for finding it, but he didn't (though he'll take credit for the good luck). If it were in the hallway, one of us would have seen it. If someone found it in our hallway, it just as easily could have been our neighbor Sophia's as Katie's so how would they know where to put it? It's a mystery. But I offer thanks to the lost toy gods and goddesses for sending this back to us. And I still haven't heard from Corolle about getting a replacement.

Aunt Lesley and Katie and Baby Rosie out to dinner