Mom transforms American Girl doll into a boy for her son

   He loves to wrestle and play soccer and baseball, and is even learning to use power tools to help build a workbench in his family's garage. At 6 years old, Nicholas Matejko is a mini man’s man, wearing a leather jacket and sometimes even cologne to be like his teenage brother.
So Nicholas’ mom, Ivette Martinez-Matejko, was a little surprised but happy to oblige when her young son asked for a doll. But not just any doll. He wanted one that resembled him and came from American Girl, the popular doll retailer where his big sister got her Isabelle doll.

When he learned there wasn’t one, Martinez-Matejko turned to the Internet and found that others had taken this matter into their own hands. She purchased a $40 secondhand, one-eyed American Girl doll, and with some TLC and a haircut, transformed it into an “American Boy” doll for Nicholas