So Who's Bruce?

It's dinner time at the local pizza hut.

Shantavia is taking the free moments she has to get caught up on some of her projects.

"Are you ready to order?"  (Waitress)

"Not yet.  I'm waiting for my daughter to arrive first."  (Shantavia)

"Okay.  I'll check back in a bit."  (Waitress)

"Can I get spaghetti?"  (Older Daughter)

"Sure.  You can get whatever you want."  (Mark)

"Are you guys ready to order?"  (Waitress)

"I think we are.   I'll have a small personal pan combo pizza."  (Linda)

"And we will both have your spaghetti and meatballs."  (Mark)

"Okay. I'll go put your order in."  (Waitress)

Meanwhile, Jason has arrived without Jada.  He sits down across from Shantavia.

"Hey."  (Jason)

"Hey.  Where's Jada?"  (Shantavia)

"She's in the car with Lynn.  I needed to talk to you first."  (Jason)

"Today when we were at the store, she called out to some man named Bruce.  Do you know anything about this?"  (Jason)

"Bruce was at the store?  Bruce is a friend of mine."  (Shantavia)

"I take it he's been hanging around my daughter? "  (Jason)

"He has met Jada, but he doesn't 'hang around' her."  (Shantavia)

"What do you know about this guy?"  (Jason)

"Here we go, again.  Why is it that every time I get a friend, you want to give me the 3rd degree like I'm your child."  (Shantavia)

"My concern is Jada, and making sure some dude doesn't get too close to my daughter.  You know there are some crazy people out here that do crazy things with kids."  (Jason)

"Yes, I know that.  I'm not stupid enough to trust any man around her without me being there.  She is my main concern, too."  (Shantavia)

"Well I want to meet this Bruce guy to make sure he understands."  (Jason)

"When the time is right, you will meet him, but for now, you will just have to trust that I can protect her, just like I trust you every time she is in your care.  Now please go get my daughter.  I haven't seen her all week."  (Shantavia)

"One pizza and two orders of spaghetti.  I'll be right back with your drinks and some silverware." (Waitress)

"There's my little angel."  (Shantavia)

"Mommy missed you.  Did you have a good time?"  (Shantavia)

"Hi mommy.  Yes, but Daddy forgot to take me to the zoo."  (Jada)

"I didn't forget, Jada.  It was way too hot to be at the zoo.  We will do it when it gets cooler."  (Jason)

"We will continue our conversation, later."  (Jason to Shantavia)

"Jason, there isn't anything left to discuss.  Jada, say bye to your daddy."  (Shantavia)

"Bye, Daddy."  (Jada)

"Bye honey.  Shantavia I will call you tomorrow."  (Jason)

"Goodbye, Jason."  (Shantavia)

Articulation Surprise

I told myself no blogging today.  We see how well that worked.  But I just had to share this one. 

I have some wonderful "light bulb" moments when I am replying to comments or emails.  It happened again this morning.  I was conversing with mrscarissa (a blog reader), who was sharing pictures of her Kara on a DG Reese body.  She also shared Kara's two kids and mentioned that her husband was a curly haired MyScene guy.

I know that curly haired MyScene guy.  I had just brought him up from (all together now) THE BASEMENT, so that I could steal his outfit for Darius.  Hadn't quite gotten to that project yet.  As I sat there replying to mrscarissa, I was about to offer her my nude MyScene guy, but then it dawned on me "I think he is articulated"!  I never paid attention to that because none of the MyScene girls that I have are articulated.  I never imagined the guy would be articulated.  I ran downstairs to check.  Yes, he is fully articulated in the arms and legs.  I quickly snapped a picture of him in his box, then proceeded to remove him from the box to check the neck connection.  I then looked for one of my males that could use some articulation.  There he was!  The Kurt Fashion Fever doll I bought from Ms. Leo. 

He has slightly longer arms than Ken and bigger hands.  He can fit some of the clothes, but the long sleeved shirts will have to be pushed up. Now that I think about it, some of Ken's shirts are too small for Ken.  LOL.

Did you know he has real feet?  I had no idea.  From the looks of those oversized rubber shoes, I thought they were built in, like the Bratz shoes.

The neck connection is a really good fit. The body is a tad darker but not noticeably so.  His wife is awfully happy.  He can now hug her back.

I immediately ran to the basement to recheck my other two MyScene female dolls.  No, they are not articulated.  Madison does have real feet, though.  Another Mattel mystery.  Why make him articulated and not the girls?