Been lurking for the last couple of threads, but just wanted to say that my 2 year old Granddaughter is fiercely independent and strong willed with it. She likes to choose her own clothes each day, including which hair ties she wants in, and will try and dress herself too. Sophies kids are actually like her puppets! It's so odd to not only keep dressing them the same, but to not see any real kind of personality come through. Ronnie should be much more independent than he appears to be by now, especially in getting him ready for school life. He needs to be able to dress himself for a start but i dont know that she'll have allowed him to? Lennie should be starting to show some personality traits too, yet they're like dolls or something. She's holding them back majorly while they're made to perform and look exactly how she wants them to. Just bizarre!