A back--dated post

I wanted to write this on Friday but got too caught up with doing everything with my two daughters so it's really a bit late.

Friday was the last day at work for Aspen Learning Centre so daddy and I both thought that it would be a cool idea to bring RQ to our Parkway Parade branch. On arrival, RQ took a grand total of 1 minute to get over her shyness and started strutting around the classrooms like she owns the place. She shifted whiteboard markers from room to room, disturbed daddy in his classroom and generally made the entire centre her playground.

I needed some supplies to last through the entire holiday period so we brought her downstairs into the shopping madness of Parkway Parade. She didn't want to be carried at all! She wanted to walk amongst the throngs of adults by herself!

Then I see a glimpse of the future RQ. She saw a makeshift shop selling overpriced teddybears and she just ran over and went like "Wow.." And she picked one up, tucked it under her arm and walked around, surveying other bears and going "nice..nice..nice.." to every other bear on display. I had a vision of myself buying up the entire shop just to keep her happy...

Buying groceries at Cold Storage was educational. She insisted on pointing out every "fish" and "meat" item to me and I had to acknowledge or else Her Royal Highness would get louder and louder. I really don't think I'd be doing this very often. Too embarrassing...

We bought a Rotiboy bun for her and it just took 1 bite before she told us that she "don't want bread, want this" pointing to the sugary coffee crust. Of course, she was on sugar overdose hyper for the next half hour, running and giggling throughout the different classrooms.

I was quite relieved when it came time to go home. More like totally exhausted.. In the cab, she nodded off to sleep within 2 minutes of boarding and it was quiet peace all the way home.

Nice start to the holidays...