I know it's a bit early, but my mom went ahead and let me open a Christmas present. I thought I knew what it was, but it turns out she managed to surprise me. It's a doll I've been wanting ever since she came out two years ago. She is the Mary Ingals doll from the company The Queen's Treasures. I know this may look like any other doll, in fact, we had talked about just buying a similar looking doll and the outfit she's wearing and call her Mary. Now, I'm not sure how many of you know about The Little House on the Prairie books, but Mary was the author, Laura Ingals Wilder's sister. She lost her sight when she was fourteen do to what was thought to be scarlet fever, but it is now known that it was really an inflammatory brain disease called Viral Meningoencephalitis, or Brain Fever, as it was called back then that attacked her brain, inflaming her optic nerves in her eyes, taking her sight. I know the company probably just created her to expand their Little House line, but it's really more meaningful to me at least, to have a doll who represents someone who was blind.
Children as young as eight years old have been seen playing a game called happy wheels, which I have witnessed. When it comes to people, their voices can reveal a great deal about them. They can be quite annoying because they do not competitively play the game and the fact that they occasionally just do whatever they want within the game. The majority of the time, they are also very noisy. Constantly yelling and talking to each other.