Shopgirl

While my almost three year-old daughter did get a lot of physical traits from me, from the time she started walking and talking we could tell she had my husband’s personality, attitude and interests. She is 100 % a Daddy’s girl, and I was starting to think she only wanted me around to feed her, bathe her, and drive her to school. When it came time for fun stuff, she always wanted to do it with Daddy. All of that changed recently when I had to take her shopping with me.

Usually I run my errands alone since she would rather stay home and play with Daddy. I have always purchased her clothes by myself, or ordered them online. On our recent shopping trip we needed to pick her up a new dress for a wedding. I know her size, so I figured I would quickly grab what we needed and get out of the store before she became frustrated. When we reached the section with little girl dresses, she became very interested.

Most of the dresses I saw were pretty, so I figured I’d ask her for her input. Boy was I surprised when she started grabbing dresses and handing them to me. Of coarse she doesn’t know what size to get (or even how to read the tags for that matter), so I switch them for the right sizes and hold a couple up and ask her which one dress she wants to get. Her response, “I think I need to try them on.” I am still not sure where she learned that concept, but we grabbed a few of her favorites and off we went to find a dressing room.

Once we find a dressing room I put the first dress on her. I really expected her to be bored after trying the first dress on, but much to my surprise she tried on all four dresses we had taken to the dressing room. She pranced around in front of the mirror with each dress on. When I asked which one she liked best she grabbed one, held it in front of herself and said, “Maybe this one….but I think I need a hat.” Wow my little girl wants to accessorize already!!!

Back to the little girl’s department we went in search of a hat. We found several pretty little hats, but she insists she can’t choose one without trying it on with the dress. So we head towards the dressing room yet again so she can put the dress back on.

On our way to the dressing room she notices there are purses hanging on a wall. Can you guess where we go? She is very persuasive and she insists that she needs a matching purse (a girl after my heart). So after spending a good 15 minutes while she decides which purse she likes, we finally make it back to the dressing room. She puts her dress on, then her hat, and finally the purse on her arm. It takes another 10 minutes of prancing in front of a mirror before she confirms that she likes her choices.
As we walk towards the cash register and she asks if we can shop again soon, I can’t help but smile. Finally it seems that she did inherit a little more then looks from me, she got her Mommy’s love of shopping! I know we will have a thousand more shopping trips together, but I will always remember the first one.

Stay tuned for The Addiction Continues – Online Shopping to hear about her discovery of online shopping.