Red Haired Babies
Yesterday I spent my Labor Day holiday laboring. Not in the giving birth sense, but in the doing actual work around the house sense. I was re-organizing some storage in the basement and found MY Cabbage Patch Doll. I don’t know her name. I’m not sure I ever did. I have no idea what the white shit is on her face either. I think it’s a mar in the plastic that conventional soap and water couldn’t remove. But that was in the 80s! I’ll have to take a magic eraser to her face. In the same box was my Raggedy Ann, or as Audrey calls her “ragged N”.
Audrey wanted to play with my dolly, and I let her for 3.2 seconds. After that I was sure she’s lose her shoes or hair bows or gah, I don’t even know what I feared for her. She hasn’t survived this long intact to be loved on by a three-year old. Thankfully Audrey wanted nothing to do with Ann. Her yarn hair and threadbare dress can’t handle too much love.
My aunts stood in line and paid some ungodly amount of money getting Cabbage Patch dolls for my female cousins and me. I loved her. I still love that they took the extra effort to get a redheaded one for me.
I was the only redhead I knew growing up. And except for my immediate family, I was the only one I knew with freckles. Granted my elementary school was 98% Hispanic. Having red hair is special. But when you’re mercilessly teased for it and your freckles, it feels more like a curse. I hope Audrey never hates her beautiful hair and freckles. Fortunately, I see lots of cutie pie gingers running around these days.
(l-r) Audrey’s Raggedy Ann c. 2006, Audrey’s Cabbage Patch Doll c. Sunday,
my Cabbage Patch Doll c. 1983, my Raggedy Ann c. 1974
It’s fun for me that Audrey is enjoying the same toys I remember from my childhood.
It is fun when they start to like the same things you do. Enjoy it!
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We still have my oldest daughters cabbage patch and raggedy Ann dolls. She absolutely loved that cabbage patch. I remember standing in line to get it too. Well worth it.
I always wanted to be a redhead. And now, thanks to the miracle of modern hair technology, I can be!
I’m such a poser.
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cabbage patch dolls, huh. i was a teen when they were big. guess that means i’m old enough to have been your babysitter, lol.
sweet that she wants to play with the same stuff :-)
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I never had a Cabbage Patch doll. I may have been too old. But I never had a Barbie either. I even got Barbie clothes from an Aunt for Christmas one year, because of course all little girls had a Barbie…not me. I gave them to my best friend’s Barbie. My mother didn’t think that dolls should be anatomically correct. No boobs, no penis. So I never had the Joey Stivic doll from All In The Family either.
Wow…that was a depressing nugget from my childhood wasn’t it?
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I never had a cabbage patch doll but think that they are very cute. Love the red hair!
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I SO wish I had red hair! I’ve dyed it red a few times and I loved it. It actually looked pretty natural on me because I’m so darn pale and already have some freckles (that really come out when I’m in the sun for only seconds.)
I love me some Cabbage Patch Dolls. What was with the names of the dolls before you got to rename them yourself when you “adopted” them. My CB doll that I named Daphne Joy after Daphne from Scooby Doo and Joy my neighbor friend, was originally named Zelma Inez. Seriously? Seriously. Why in the world would you name a doll that??
And then the next year when I wanted another CB doll, I REQUIRED that it have a pacifier in its mouth. My Pap-paw searched the city of Louisville high and low for one and just couldn’t find it. At his last store he said, “If I can’t find one, I’ll buy a plain one, cut a hole in its mouth, and stick the damn pacifier in myself!”
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I have a red-headed cabbage patch doll that looks JUST like that one! Her name is Marjorie… I think. She is sitting in a box at my parents house.
Maybe I’ll have to go retrieve her when I have a little girl!
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I’m a red-head too and was the only one (of 4 kids) in my family….I HATED it. I swore that I would marry a swarthy man with dark hair so that my kids would be tan and beautiful. I also swore if I had a red headed baby, it was going back where it came from. I’m pretty sure that was before I knew where they came from….and how much it hurts to get them out, let alone put one back. :)
As it turns out, I married a strawberry blonde and we have NOT ONE, but TWO red heads. And I love it. Luckily it is way more accepted now and people actually want it (go figure!). I would have paid someone to take mine back in the day.
I never had a red-headed cabbage patch. When I was in college, someone gave me the “Autumn” Barbie…a glorious redhead. Nothing like me (she had the perfect body, no freckles and auburn perfect hair). But I liked her all the same….