I'm so glad you resurrected the Sunday Surprise! I don't like getting surprise dolls, but I like your posts about them. I agree that the babysitters babies are the best deal, and they would be really easy to wrap at home for a surprise gift. The others are nice if you plan on getting just one from a series and being happy with anything you get. It could also be a good opportunity to teach kids who are getting a younger sibling that this is how real babies work: you can't really choose its sex, birthday or features. Some are born with little defects.

I really like surprise toys, and I especially like surprise mini babies. I don't collect baby dolls in general anymore, so I'm not sure why babies are so appealing to me in a small scale--and especially with a surprise theme. Maybe it's because babies bring several surprises with them in real life? Or perhaps it's just because mini babies are great little toys, either on their own as something to nurture, or as a fun new addition to a doll family. In any case, I've reviewed a few different surprise babies over the years, including Zapf Jolly Dollies and the unrivaled Cabbage Patch Babyland Mini Kids--which are still probably my favorite surprise mini of all. But I wanted to see what kinds of mini babies are available on the market today, so I focused on this theme during one of my Target missions. The first surprise baby toy I found was this one, by Zapf and MGA Entertainment:I thought the butterfly babies would make a fun addition to a fairy family, until I realised I've never seen male fairy dolls. I was considering the idea of parthenogenesis among fairies, until you revealed that Apollo is a boy. So they have infant males, but they don't reach adulthood. The enigma is still unsolved!