Teeny Tiny Tears has surgery

We received a Teeny Tiny Tears for review courtesy of The Great Toy Guide a while back.  I was a bit taken aback by the doll and didn’t know what to do with it.  My concern was the age old…”Do I give my daughter a DOLL?”.  Just because she’s a girl, does she HAVE to HAVE a doll?  But then I realised that MY hangups with dolls (I only had one babydoll in my childhood…Baby Tender Love if you must know), shouldn’t be passed down to my daughter and that if she wants to play with a babydoll, then she should play with a babydoll!

Little Miss LOVES her Teeny Tiny Tears.  Thankfully, as the doll is TEENY Tiny Tears, we don’t have to suffer weeing, crying and other bodily functions.  She’s just a baby, albeit a bit of a weird looking baby.  She’s one of the most unfashionable babies that I have seen and she has NO HAIR whatsoever…not even pencilled in hair!  They managed to pencil in the eyebrows but no hair!  I have a bit of an issue with this as you can tell.

The other odd thing about Teeny Tiny Tears (who is just known as BABY in our house), is that she is accessorised with a dummy and bottle BUT there’s no possibility that either is going to go in Teeny Tiny Tears’ mouth as there is no opening!  Her mouth is open but there’s no hole.  Perhaps the Powers That Be at UK Health and Safety have deemed that a hole in the mouth of a Teeny Tiny Tears is a horrible, disfiguring accident waiting to happen?  Not sure!  Yesterday, my husband was entertaining Little Miss whilst I was on the computer (what? you’re never on the computer!) and Little Miss kept shoving Teeny Tiny Tears and the dummy at him so he could continually wedge the dummy in her partially open mouth.  He finally had had enough.  Quietly, without consulting me, he skulked into the kitchen and performed some surgery!  Teeny Tiny Tears came out of the kitchen with the dummy firmly trapped in her mouth!  RESULT!!!

It wasn’t until a bit later, as I was cleaning up the toys before bed time that I noticed Teeny Tiny Tears dummy IN her mouth.  I took the dummy out of Teeny Tiny Tear’s mouth and found… A HOLE!!!  Where there had previously been NOT a hole, there was A HOLE!  Dummy in.  Dummy out!  How the heck did that happen??  I took Teeny Tiny Tears to my husband and said “How did Teeny Tiny Tears get her dummy in her mouth?”.  There was a lot of umm-ing and ahhh-ing and finally I got it out of him.  He had decided it was ridiculous that Teeny Tiny Tears should have a dummy and a bottle and NO HOLE in her mouth in which to put them.  So, when I wasn’t exactly paying attention, he went in the kitchen, took out the CORKSCREW and a CHOPSTICK and proceeded to do a bit of SURGERY on Teen Tiny Tears’ mouth!  Teeny Tiny Tears had a bit of reconstructive surgery…and at such a young age!  I pretended to be a bit appalled but actually, I was rather impressed!  I would never have DRILLED A HOLE in Teeny Tiny Tears’ mouth but Daddy sees a problem and solves it!  Somewhat disturbing but very clever, my husband!  Next time your child’s dolly needs a bit of plastic reconstructive surgery, let us know.  I am sure my husband won’t charge much!