"Eat your breakfast and get dressed, sweetie. Today Mommy is going to take you to a park where there will be a lot of other mommies and daddies with little girls for you to play with." Jen had called around and found a playgroup that met late on Sunday morning. "Then we'll go to the toy store and get you a pretty doll! Won't that be nice?"
Diane ate her cereal. On the inside, Dean was screaming, but outwardly, Diane loved the idea of getting a new doll.