Abby has quite an active imagination. She has a doll, Aurora (named after Sleeping Beauty), and one (Aurora's) Sister. Their best friend is BB, an imaginary boy who likes eating very strange things. Sister is the one most often found by Abby's side, but at any given moment unexpected or unacceptable behaviors could be attributed to these 3.

Several weeks ago, we were sitting at the breakfast table and I asked Abby to do (or not to do!) something--I can't remember what. Her response to me was "Well, Sister doesn't have to do that." I retorted that Sister was a doll and she was a girl (I had been getting the "Sister doesn't have to" response a lot recently). She smugly respondesd that Sister was a girl too. Ha! I can laugh about it . . . now.