Playing Barbie Dolls with Rebecca

This is such a cute picture of my sister Rebecca (back) and me (front). I am closer in age to her than any of my other sisters. If I think back to our childhood, and what we did together, the words "barbie dolls" comes to my mind. I don't remember playing barbie dolls with Teresa, but I do remember playing barbie dolls with Rebecca.

My barbie doll house was one level and it opened up and became three rooms. I only had four barbie dolls (Ken, Barbie, Skipper and Growing Skipper). I remember Rebecca's barbie doll house was two levels and it had an elevator on the side. I'm not sure how many Barbie's she had or what they looked like.

I remember we would pull all of our barbie doll stuff out and set it up in the front yard under the carport and we would play for hours together. I think setting everything up and dressing all the barbie dolls was the funnest thing to do. I loved playing barbie dolls with my sister Rebecca.

My mom made most of our barbie doll clothes and she even knitted some of them. I still have all my barbie dolls, their clothes, and some other things (like dishes). I found them the other day and had to laugh at how worn out they looked. I cut Barbie and Skipper's hair short, thinking it would grow again, and I pushed pins into their ears for earrings. I was saving my barbie dolls for my daughter. Looking at them I thought how silly of me, my daughter would never want to play with these ugly old barbie dolls. I still can't throw my old barbie dolls away because they brought back some fun memories for me.

Here is a picture of Teresa with Rebecca and I that was taken on the same day.

My Mom's comments: This picture was taken at Kmart. It was a promo for a camera. Rebecca or you fell off the back of the seat you were sitting on.