<Since the 'little woman' has a lot to say around the house, even if only 3, like Pamela Tomlinson, Santa Claus takes heed of her Christmas list.

Toys on parade this year for young home-makers include new dolls, realistic kitchen appliances, dishes and cutlery, tiny sewing machines, hair dryers, toasters.



This still applies in my house. My little girl (2 in April) has 3 babies and loves each one of them. Her latest came with its own binky (pacifier). We only let Jess have her binky when she goes to bed, so when she wakes up she surrendurs it to us. When she got her new baby, she started taking her babies binky away in the mornings too. "No, No, baby" she would say.

Call me sexist, but there is something in little girls, that just love babies. Anywhere we go, if she sees a baby she starts saying "baby, baby" as loud as she can until we acknowledge that we see it too.

Since I don't have a boy yet, I couldn't tell you if they have a natural affinity for GI Joe. But then my little girl loves computers, tools, and the remote, so maybe she is just mimicking her parents.

-Steve G.