Ella Deseret's Special Day

I love having one on one time with my babies. It's so rare, but when it happens I think I get as excited as they do. Last Friday was Ella's special pre-christmas date. It was going to start off by me watching her play 'Joy' in the Kindy Christmas Show, but plans changed during the week and she ended up coming with me to Sister Perry's funeral :(

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Then it was off to Mini Golf which she'd been so looking forward to for about 6 weeks beforehand. (I'm at a loss now for what to use as her consequence for a bad bedtime. I was able to use 'you'll lose Mini Golf if you muck around' for so long! And I used that for a few weeks with her staying in her primary class as well. What am I gonna do now?!?!?!)

I think she was a little like 'is this it? Is this what I've been so excited about for so long?' But after a few holes we got into the swing of things and she really did love it. 

Then we shot in to McDs and on to Kmart so she could do her christmas shopping 

(1 present each for Seth and Faith)

'Mum, can I have this and this and this and this and this?'

'This is so cool, can I get it one day?'

'I would really love to have this'

Must have been amusing for other people to see her ask for everything she saw...literally!....and my replies were just as quick as the requests.....'Maybe one day, not today, that's a bit too expensive, we've already got one like that, that's too noisy'

I think this was her first time every trying something on  in a changing room and that was pretty exciting in itself.

For Seth she chose 4 dinosaurs, such an awesome present for him. And for Faith we struggled a bit because they don't make bey blades anymore. Eventually we found a cool calender at Smiggle, but Bobby liked it so much that she didn't want to buy it for Faith! She wanted it for herself and when I said 'No', she didn't want to get it at all. Kind of stink to end our day with this grumpy face. Lucky she changed her mind when I said if she didn't choose a present for Faith, she'd lose one of her own presents. So calendar it was! Hope she likes if more than Anne Geddes aye Aunty Nae....on the way home I thought 'oh no, a calendar, she might do a disappointed face and hate it!'