Little Boy Blue
Each month Hayden "learns" a new nursery rhyme. This month is Little Boy Blue. Hayden brought this home on Thursday. Check out her name! I'm sure she did not do this on her own, but it looks like she helped out some. Pretty cool stuff. Lunch at Chick-fil-A
Darn Dora the Explorer!It was such a great plan....in theory! We were going to meet my friend Whitney out near the mall and have lunch then we were off to the mall to see Dora! I had been talking to Hayden about it all week and the full page color newspaper add was posted on the freezer door right at Hayden's height so she could see it every day! I got the girls all ready to go and I made sure to pack up the camera AND video camera in order to capture this wonderful childhood memory. We got to Chick-fil-A at noon and the plan was going perfectly. The chick-fil-A near the mall even has a little play area complete with a huge slide-perfect! We ate lunch in peace and quiet because Layne was being a perfect little baby. Then I took Hayden to the play area. She went down the slide once. As she came down she appeared to be terrified, but sure enough she went right back up the steps! Well, it turns out that the slide did indeed terrify her because she wouldn't come down again. She was out of sight stuck up in the plastic tubing. For all I knew there was some other kid up there tormenting her! That really could have been the case because the first time that she was up in the plastic tube area she was bossing some boy around that was twice her age and size. All I kept hearing was Hayden scream "No....Go!"....that little pistol! One of the tactics I used to try and bribe her down was, "Ok Hayden, come down the slide so we can go and see Dora. Don't you want to see Dora!?" It was a no go. If talk of seeing Dora couldn't get her down that slide nothing could! Well, some lady overheard me say something about Dora and she was quick to tell me that they had just come from the mall and the line was all the way to Dillars. That didn't mean anything to me though, I don't have the mall floor plan memorized! So I continued to try and coax Hayden to come out of the play area. Thankfully some random guy when up the twisty stairs and through some of the tubes to retrieve her-she had been up there for about 10 minutes. So, I quickly put her shoes on and we headed to the mall. We went in the Kohl's entrance because that's where Dora was. When we got to the front of Kohl's there were these black felt curtain things hanging up (kind of like the Wizard of Oz), Dora and Diego balloons everywhere, and Dora music playing. We were so excited to finally be there, we started to look around for Dora and Diego and quickly realized that they were hidden behind the curtains! You could not even see them until it was your turn to go behind the curtain! What!? So, we decided to walk back to find the end of the line...... The dang line went from one end of the mall to the other and then started to wrap around the other side of the railing. I felt so terrible because Hayden had been looking forward to this day for a week now, and it wasn't going to happen. We would have been in the line for 3 or 4 hours I bet. I was desperately trying to think of something we could do that would be as cool to Hayden as seeing Dora in real life. So, we walked the mall looking for replacements....Santa-yeah, he was there and there was NO line for him but too expensive....play area with a huge plastic band aid-yeah, it was there but packed full of kids whose parents weren't willing to wait in the Dora line either, Build a Bear Workshop-no, she has so many stuffed animals alread. So, we headed to Toys R Us because Whit wanted to buy Hayden a toy because she felt so bad! She got Hayden an awesome Little People Noah's Ark toy. What a stinking day-it's not a good feeling disappointing your child. It all started out as such a great plan.....in theory!
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