We can't take the suspense.

Kim has started showing interest in playing pretend. She was given a doll for her first birthday and never showed much interest until we had the doll pram. Then she's been pushing it around all day and wanting to get it to sit on the potty, putting on and taking off her shoes and getting me to change her.

We, or at least I, have been toying with the idea of getting Kim a dollhouse (to further encourage imaginery play) so I trawled the net for what's available in the market. It made me want to be a kid again. There are so many toys out there. So many different brands and most of them are way cool.

P was quite set on Playmobil. I wasn't very keen cos while they are nice, I thought that a dollhouse needs to have cuter dolls and more homely furniture. I was gunning for a wooden dollhouse. But boy are they expensive. So we decided to just wait and buy it for Kim for her second birthday.

I found a local store, which is the sole distributor of one brand I like here in sg. After doing research (checking out online stores and a few other shopping centres), I thot we'd go down and take a look. At the back of my mind, I just wanted to show P the other possibilities aside from PM.

We completely fell in love and came home with the whole lot. It wasn't intentional. Really. So we had the works. The house, the dolls, the grandparent dolls, the entire furniture set, the car, the pets. Oh dear. It felt like we almost bought the entire shop. Nah, far from it.

We discussed it and sort of decided that we might keep it till her birthday before giving it to Kim. But then I thought I'd give her the family dolls and the car for her to play with first.



Then P wanted to fix up the house. Here he is hard at work.

And with such a small flat, where can we possibly hide it without the little girl chancing upon it? So we unveiled it, thinking she'd just have the house, the family and the car to play with and that would be enough.

We made her sit on the sofa opposite the house (covered with a bedsheet) and this was her reaction when we unveiled it.

She takes a peek.

Really pleased.



Then I couldn't resist so in went the master bedroom.



And the dining table.



And her other doll Gracie, dropped by to say hi and just had to test the comfy level of the bed.



AND we added the kid's bedroom set.



The parent dolls took a rest after Gracie left. Afterall, supervising the incoming furniture can be quite tiring.



So did the kids, tired from all the excitement of a new place. Just the doggie keeping watch.



Oh, and of course one would need the bathroom. You can't live in a place without one!

Doggie checking out the dining area for scraps.



The dollhouse comes with two levels. But right now, Kim finds it hard to play with furniture in the lower level so it has become a temporary garage.

The rest will probably have to wait till her birthday IF we can resist taking them out just to see her reaction each time. :)

Our funny little girl. She would climb into the dollhouse if she could. She has already tried to walk up the staircase of the dollhouse.

P is on the rampage at the moment thinking about painting the dollhouse and how to install lights and all. He's even gotten my dad into it. Well, we'll see what happens and will post when he completes his project.