"Guess what!" cried Pippa as she ran into the room. "Guess what! Guess what!" she repeated.
Mandy looked up from her knitting.
She moved her glasses to the top of her head, so she could look at Pippa.
"Um..." she began, "um...someone was riding an elephant in the park?"
"No!" Pippa exclaimed. "That would be silly! The only elephants in this whole state are in the zoo!"
"Well," Mandy mused, "then it must be that someone flew over you in a balloon and dropped candy bars, and one of them hit you on the head."
Pippa would have rolled her eyes, but her eyes don't move, no matter how hard she tried, so she looked up at the ceiling and threw out her arms.
"No!" she exclaimed again. "Whoever heard of someone dropping candy bars from a balloon!"
"Well," Mandy considered, "how about you were walking home and you saw a squirrel protesting for Earth Day?"
Pippa thought that squirrels would really appreciate Earth Day, but she didn't think they could spell "Save our Earth."
Pippa tried rolling her head, since she can't roll her eyes, but she realized she would have to take it off to get it to roll. That was the only way she could roll her eyes...unless she just took out her eyes and rolled them like marbles. That seemed like too much trouble.
"I have an idea, Pippa," Mandy suggested. "How about you tell me what has you so excited. Obviously, I'm not very good at guessing."
Pippa thought Mandy was good at making up stuff but not very good at guessing, so she settled on the couch next to her sister. "Well," she began, "we have a new doll in my class at school."
"My," said Mandy, "that really is exciting!"
"Well, you know," Pippa said, "we get new dolls in the class sometimes. Sometimes a real human child who lives near here gets a new doll for their birthday, and that doll comes to school with us, so that's not really all that exciting."
"Tell me, then," Mandy said, "what is so exciting about this new doll."
"She's my size!" Pippa exclaimed. "She's just as tall...I mean short...as I am! Her hands and feet are the same size as mine! Her head is the same size as mine. She even looks a lot like me!"
Mandy had to admit that she was amazed. There were no other dolls Pippa's size in the dolls' school. "That really is exciting," she agreed, "and she's in your class, too. Will your teacher be able to tell you apart?"
"That's no problem," Pippa assured Mandy. "She doesn't look exactly like me, just sort of."
"The teacher gave her a seat next to mine," Pippa went on. "I have to sit in the front row, you know, because I'm small and can't see over the other dolls' heads, so Polly has to sit in front, too. She sits right next to me!"
"Do you think you and Polly will be friends?" Mandy wanted to know.
"Oh, yes!" Pippa agreed. "We have so much in common, being the same size, and all, but not only that," she added, getting up on her feet so she could show Mandy how important she felt about this next part. "Teacher wanted me to help her find where everything was and what the schedule was and make sure she had everything she needed."
"Where does Polly live?" Mandy asked.
"That's the best part!" Pippa cried. "Polly lives only about three streets over from us! She's in our neighborhood, and we can walk to school together!"
"I told Polly I would pick her up in the morning at her house," Pippa confided. "Her child...she lives with an actual real human child, you know, not an old lady who writes stories. Her child dropped her off at the school this morning, and then we walked home together when school was over."
"Maybe Polly can come over and play sometime," Mandy suggested.
"Oh, that would be lovely!" Pippa gushed. "I'll invite her tomorrow. Maybe she can come home with me after school one day. The child she lives with has soccer practice after school sometimes, so I'm sure she'll be able to."
"That's even more exciting than someone riding an elephant in the park," Mandy commented.
"Yes," Pippa agreed, "but I love to see elephants at the zoo, so seeing someone ride one in the park would be special."
"Having a new friend," Mandy continued, "is more exciting even than having someone fly over you, dropping candy bars down on you."
"Yes," Pippa said, "but it would be lovely to get to pretend to eat a candy bar, even if it just hit you on the head and was all broken."
"Well," Mandy said, "having a new friend is definitely better than seeing a squirrel protesting on Earth Day!"
"Yes," Pippa said thoughtfully. "That would be very strange and interesting, but squirrels just run around in the trees, and eat nuts and seeds. If they protest anything, it's another squirrel trying to raid their stuff!"
"There's almost nothing better," Pippa exclaimed, "than having a new friend, unless it's having old friends."
"Or a sister," Mandy said, giving her a hug.
"Or a sister," Pippa agreed.
Note to children: Dolls walk on the furniture sometimes because they're small, and they have to, but it's OK because their shoes aren't dirty. You walk outdoors, so you should take off your shoes before you put your feet on the furniture.
Mandy: Götz Happy Kidz Katie 2015
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