Alice’s big Christmas / birthday present was a large doll house. It proved to be a very popular choice with the entire crew. Oddly, though, Alice prefers to have me play with her rather than Mom. I have to play with “little Alice” while Alice does “little Mommy”. I have discovered that Little Alice can have all the treats she wants, but bedtimes are not negotiable. At one point, when it was bedtime, Little Alice was in the Little Mommy / Daddy bed when Little Daddy wanted to go to sleep as well. Little Alce refused to move, so Alice sent Little Daddy off to sleep in Little Alice’s bed. Little Alice is also allowed to jump on the bed. It’s no problem if she falls off and bonks her head, because Little Mommy has plenty of band-aids.