At this moment, my daughter Sophia is buying her first Ken doll with her daddy. (God bless him) I wonder if she is going to do the peek-a-roo and take his pants off like every other single little girl who owned a Ken doll.
(oh come on... I know you did it too)
It's normal that a child has curiosity over what inside the other team's pants. I never peeked in Ken's pants, actually. Not because I didn't want to, it was because I didn't have Ken.
I had Donny Osmond. Ha ha ... yep. And YES I peeked inside his pants to see what the difference was.
Picture it, Baltimore, Maryland 1977 in my parent's very furnished basement . ....I was wearing my red and white bell bottom plaid pants, a long sleeve red pleated shirt with a tiny red bow turtle neck, and long red pony tails topped off with a thick yarn red bows. It was winter time and I was a lonely only child that made B.F.F.'s with my Barbies and danced around like a wacko to the Mickey Mouse Club record player.
Excited that I finally got my first male doll to accompany dates with Barbie and Skipper too to their Barbie town house ( my parents were too cheap to buy me the Barbie Dream House just for the know), I ran up the basement stairs skipping every other step, after all, I am all about time management in my formative years. Peering around the corner of the basement door to see if anyone was coming, I quietly shut the basement door and ran back down the stairs.
My thick Wonder Woman themed glasses started to fog up as I took a big sigh of anxiousness to finally see what "it" looked like.
"Darn it Donny! Why do you have to have that crazy purple jumpsuit?" I thought in my struggle to undress him.
Finally Success!
Wait a minute......... hhmmm..... ?????
I don't get it.
This isn't what the neighborhood girls described.
"Huh. Okay... so that is weird" I thought with brow raised.
.......... Later that night, watching
">The Donny and Marie Show with my parents. I sat criss cross on the floor smugly knowing from my great discovery.
Yep. I know Donny.... what is in those pants of yours.
So as I wait for my dear daughter to come home... I wonder if she too will have that same perplexed look as I did when I was in my youth from my great discovery? Is she going to peek in Ken's pants too?
Yep. I'll bet my life on it.