Little Moments

I have so much to post about on here with Grady's 1st B-day and Bella's 6th B-day, but I didn't want to wait to tell about today. My niece Abby and her husband Jim and technically their little Lydibug too gave Bella a Toys R Us gift card for her birthday. Everyday since Bella has asked me 20 times a day when we can go shopping. So, today we went to let her spend it.

When we walked in I told her to grab whatever she liked and put it in the basket. Then after we had gone through the whole store, we'd pull everything out and let her pick her favorite. Off we went. She examines tons of stuff but only chooses 4 things. As we are looking at everything, Emery says about 6 times "Mommy, I want this today, pllleeeeaassse?!!!" Each time it's a different toy and each time I tell her, "No honey, we are not spending any money today. We are here to let Bella pick out her gift from Abby and Jim. Remember? We'll comeback when it's your birthday. O.K.?" She was very compliant and didn't harp on not being able to get anything.

So when it was all said and done we were down to 4 stuff-tee-d animals (as they call them). We went through what she would spend and what she would have left with each one. There was a snow leopard on clearance and if she got that she could get her favorite, a lynx-type cat, too, but would have nothing left. That was her decision.

I told Emery now that Bella was getting 2 cats, I'm sure she would let her play with one so they could play together with them. She was excited then too!

Bella was soooo excited. She took them up and ask me if she could hold them and not put them into a bag. I said yes, just tell the cashier. So we went up and she handed them over. The lady said, "of course you can" and gave them back to her. Bella then hugged them both tightly and

held the snow leopard out to Emery, "Here you go Em, this one is yours."

(me) "Awwe that's so sweet Bella. See Emery now you can play with one."

(B) "No mom, I'm giving it to her."

(me) "Bella, when you give something to someone it's no longer yours, it's theirs."

(B) "I know mom. I felt in my heart that Emery's heart was sad and I decided to buy her this leopard. But I wanted to wait till after we bought it to surprise her."

(me - tearing up) "B, are you sure? That's your birthday money. You don't have to do that."

(B) yep

wow. I'm still tearing up.