Maile’s 5th(!) birthday is on Friday. Crazy. This afternoon I thought it would be fun to do some Daddy/daughter shopping and I took her to buy a “special birthday dress” that she could pick out.
We took the bus downtown and went to the Gap. Now Maile’s shopping style currently is “see it, want it” – everything is immediately her favorite. So I decided to teach her a little bit about how to make a decision. We went around the store and picked out all the dresses we liked and then we asked the lady working there if we could have a dressing room. We went into the dressing room and put all the dresses up on the hangers so we could check them out.
Maile Girl with her 5 potential special birthday dresses...
Then we tried them on one-by-one, checked ourselves out in the mirror and then decided if it went in the “I like it/maybe” pile or the “I don’t like it/get it off me quickly” pile. (Only one dress end up in the latter pile and that was because Daddy grabbed the wrong size).
Here’s the lineup:
Option #1 (a little timid to start)
Option #2 (now we're really getting in to it)
Option #3 (I swear I was not encouraging these poses!)
Option #4 (We loved this one as soon as we put it on...)
Option #5 (Wrong size one - get it off me!)
As mentioned above, I have no idea where these poses came from – I wasn’t encouraging her – just suggested we take a picture so we can remember what the dress looked like. She also doesn’t get it from Mommy. She just started a new show, PAW Patrol, maybe it’s from that 😉
After we tried them all on, we left the dressing room and reviewed all the pictures. Which is your favorite? We decided on…
… #4 – our very special birthday dressy and it looks beautiful on Maile!
Maile was very excited about her pick - he wanted to wear it home, but I convinced her to save it for her birthday party on Saturday
We had a lot of fun, but I’ve most definitely created a monster here.
