Tuesday, August 5, 2008

This weekend my husband and my son went  away for a Father/Son camping trip.  More pics and details to follow later this week.  For now, it’s girl time!!

I stayed home with the two girls.   We had a wonderful time playing and bonding. We baked chocolate chip cookies.  Because a girl has got to have her chocolate fix, right? 

And then to be completely stereotypical, I took them shopping at the mall.  I am not really a big mall shopper.  I don’t find the mall to be the most economical place for me to purchase things.  I typically use the mall as an event, we walk around, we eat some food, we look at the animals at the pet store.  This trip was no exception.  Except since our sole purpose was just to spend time together and I was in no hurry to get anything or be anywhere, we, as my daughter put it, "played mall."  We all got dressed up first, fixing our hair and wearing the our bright pink clothes.  Mommy even wore a skirt so she could look pretty like the girls.   We got our pink purses and I let my two year old bring her baby doll and stroller so she could push her baby while I pushed mine.   This was the highlight of both of our day.

The look on her face as she pushed her stroller through the mall was priceless.  She was all smiles.  She’d stick her purse up on her shoulder and push her stroller down the mall stopping to smile at everyone she saw.  She had a blast.  (And so did I)!  We went into Clarie’s Boutique to try to find more little pony tail holders for her  (because I am so excited that she is now letting me put her hair up in pig tails)!  I hadn’t been in there since I was in elementary school.  We found just the kind she liked and she got to pay for it with my credit card.  We grabbed dinner at Chick-Fil-A and then made our way back to the car. 

My daughter told me as we were leaving that she had so much fun "playing mall" today.              

While we all missed the boys and were eager for them to return home to us, the time by ourselves was good.   My middle child got to be the the big kid for the weekend.  She got to set the stage for things and be in the spotlight.  In a lot of ways it was her weekend to shine.  She impressed me with things she knew that I didn’t know she knew (like counting and certain shapes).   And my baby for some reason seemed a little less baby like as the two of them were playing on the floor with each other. 

{ 14 comments }