31/05/2026
🩷 Bababa – Where my childhood meets his 🩷. Every night, when I am not at work, our family have a sweet little routine: we have our video call, and it’s always the absolute highlight of my day 🥰. It all started one evening — my 3-year-old grandson was telling me about something called “BABABA” with such contagious excitement, so much passion, big expressions and bright sparkling eyes; I could feel his joy right through the screen! 🤩✨ I had no idea what he was talking about, so I asked his mummy, and she told me: “Oh, he means the Barbapapa family! We bought a book from a charity shop, and he is completely obsessed with them!” 📚💖And just like that… it all came flooding back! Vivid, warm, happy memories from my own childhood rushed straight into my heart — I loved them so much when I was little! 🥹 That pure excitement he had stuck with me, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.I started crocheting them one by one 🧶🪡… and every time we were on the phone, the very first thing he would greet me with was: “Babababa mani molia?” 🥹💬 — he just had to see the ones I had made so far! That sweet, eager question was my biggest motivation, and it kept me going, stitch by stitch, until I had made all 9 members of the family just for him ❤️.Now he carries them everywhere, still calls them all his “Bababa”, and plays with them every single day 🧸💫. What started as a story in a second-hand book, shared over a video call, has become the sweetest bridge between generations. My beloved childhood friends are now his favourite playmates… and there is no greater joy than passing down a little bit of magic, love and memories from my heart to his 🥹💖. Handmade gifts aren’t just toys — they are love, history and family wrapped in yarn 🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🩷
