Hong Mao and Cat

Isabella soon ditched the little rabbit we sent to her in China and Eeyore whom we took over in favour of Hong Mao (Cantonese for Panda). We are now on Hong Mao mark 3, but she doesn't drop him out of her pram anymore so no 3 has been around for a while!

Isabella has never really been into dolls apart from undressing them to see how the buttons, or fasteners work! But recently Hong Mao has become increasingly important. She holds him to sleep, and kisses him all the time! She even tucks him into her pushchair and covers him when she is walking! And when we walk along the road we both have to hold one of Hong Mao's paws! Recently he has been joined by 'cat'. We bought cat in Ikea, she just picked it up and cuddled 'her' so is now her second favourite toy! Its lovely to see how her imagination is growing and how she now interacts with her favourite toys! Ma Ma has recently bought a reserve Hong Mao as she would be devastated if he got lost. She found him yesterday and called him Hong Mao Gor Gor ( Cantonese for Panda's big brother!).

Here is a picture of Hong Mao and cat enjoying Euro Disney! Dont worry Hong Mao has had a 'special bath' since then and is back to being black and white instead of grey and white!

I also got one for my friend J, who one day will have her little girl from China home:) J, I will leave it in your pigeon hole when I next visit the Uni or when I am back at work! I hope your daughter will love it as much as Isabella loves hers.