Last Friday evening, I went to watch Gabriela's gymnastics lesson and then we were off...just the 2 of us...to celebrate her birthday.
She was sooo excited. "It's still just you and me, right, CC? It is my birthday afterall". Yes, just you and me.
"CC, I brought a really pretty pink dress to change into since you're taking me out to dinner."
"Where would you like to go eat? We can go anywhere you like."
"Chick-Fil-A?"
(are you kidding me?!?!?!)"No, we're not going to Chick-Fil-A tonight. Pick something else."
"OK...let's go to Papi's restaurant."
(seriously, you can go anywhere and this is your 2nd choice?!)"Really, that's where you REALLY want to go? Are you sure? Really?"
(can you tell that I really wasn't wanting to go there...but if that's where she wanted to go, we would go.)"Yep. That's where I want to go."
"Ok...let's go to Papi's Restaurant."
As we are driving down 1960, Gabriela pipes in...
"Wait! CC! Let's go to Chuck E Cheese!"
"Sure - let's go!" (
that's more my kind of place to celebrate a birthday)We had a great time a CEC and Gabriela was raking in the tickets from all her games of Skeeball and other games. She ended up with 218 tickets and was able to get 4 little things from the counter. I wonder how much a ticket is worth? Probably a penny....of course, a token is worth about a quarter. I'd say that they're making quite the profit, wouldn't you?
We left CEC and Gabriela wanted to know where we were going next. We were going to go and paint pottery but we spent too much time at CEC and it was too late. I told her it was her choice, but that I couldn't go anywhere that required a lot of walking, as I had just sprained my ankle that afternoon.
"How about the mall?"
"um...Gabriela...remember, not somewhere that requires a lot of walking?"
"oh yeah..that's right...let me see...how about Walmart?" (still not getting it)
"no...can't go there. How about we go and get some icecream?"
"Sure - that sounds perfect! Do you want to just go into Jack In The Box and get an icecream there?"
"Well, they don't really have icecream cones there."
"Ok, then, we can just go to the gas station."
I was cracking up....I could just hear it...so, Gabriela, where did CC take you? To the gas station.
So I suggested "Well, how about Bruesters Icecream?"
"Oh yeah, the one where you stand up next to the sign to see if your small enough to not have to pay for your icecream?"
'Yes, that one."
"Ok, I either want a cone with chocolate icecream, sprinkles and eye candy OR strawberry icecream with Reese's peanut butter cups."
Thankfully she went with her first thought, because that 2nd option just sounds nasty to me. But according to Gabriela, "it's absolutely the best icecream ever!"
After we finished our icecream, we made a quick stop at CVS to get a few things. Of course, she's always on the prowl for things that she "just has to have". And low and behold....we come across the whole section of polka-dotted items. Polka dots are very big for her right now. Her room is full of them and she wants her birthday party to be decorated with polka dots. We actually found some really cute b'day candles and table cloth with polka dots. She was so excited.
So we walk up to the counter to check out and the teenage girl working at there probably didn't know what hit her....
"Hi, tonight I'm celebrating my birthday with CC, but tomorrow is actually my birthday. I'm going to be 6. I love polka dots so CC is buying these for me and my sisters for our birthday party. See, there is a birthday candle with a 6 because that's how old I am going to be, and then we have 2 "4" candles for my twin sisters. We're going to have a polka dotted cake and this table cloth will go on the table so that we don't make a mess on my mommy's nice table. I sure am glad that we stopped in here tonight"
People I am
NOT exaggerating. I was cracking up. And the girl behind the counter said - well, it sure is exciting to be turning 6! Indeed it is!
I was there when you fell off the bench in the kitchen and lost consciousness for a minute while Mommy was trying to keep Maya & Isabela from coming (literally!). I loved our drives around the circle (you were a good driver at the age of 3!) I have seen you learn to swim, ride your bike, attended your school programs, watched you perform your gymnastics routines, taken you to paint pottery and to the movie theater, and had you accompany me on too many shopping trips to count.
