I hit the Powerball earlier this month for a hundred bucks. I didn't realize it until this past weekend when I finally got around to checking my tickets. So with that cash in my pocket, I went to pick up Ava from day care as I normally do on Monday. We have a routine of going to Taco Bell for dinner, her choice of choices! So she asks if we can go when we are walking to the truck and this is our conversation......
"Not today honey, I have a surprise for you!"
"Oh boy Pop Pop, I love surprises!What is it?"
"Well, if I tell you then it won't be a surprise will it?"
" No, but I love surprises!"
Duly noted, and filed! So I head towards Target which is right down the road. As we start to turn in, she notices and gets all excited....
" That's Target, Pop Pop! That's my favorite!!!" (Just about everything is her favorite, for reference...)
"Yes indeed, that is Target, honey."
" Are we going there?"
"Yes we are, honey."
At which point she lets loose with a very excited giggle, she knows that her surprise lies in said store..... warmed my heart to no end.
"Pop Pop is going to let you pick out a couple of toys, and that is your surprise!!"
"Can I go to the little girls section? "
"you can go to any section you want!"
I thought her little head was going to explode. She was amped to the max at this point and I could barely get her outta the seat she was squirming so bad. It struck me at that moment just how much I enjoy spoiling the shit out of this kid. I don't know who was more excited, her or me. I chuckled so much watching her pick the toys she wanted. I tried to make sure she looked at different things to be sure what she wanted was what she got. She quickly made up her mind on two items and before I knew it we were on our way to the checkout counter. I tell her we have to go by the grocery store and pick up some milk on the way home, and she is ok but anxious to get home to start playing with her new toys. We pull into the parking lot of the shopping center and as we are headed into the grocery store she spots Beall's outlet store.
"I wanna go there, Pop Pop."
"And what do you want there?"
"I need some new shoes, Pop Pop"
OMG!!! She is already a shopping hound......
And the cycle is complete once again, like mother, like daughter...... I flash back on a shopping trip long ago with her Mom, when she was roughly the same age. We went to the Mall to find a certain pair of tennis shoes she just had to have. Now I know why it gives me so much pleasure to spoil this child! It's because I have spoiled her Mom and Aunt Maddie all of their lives to the very best of my ability!!!!!! It's genetic engineering at work, I can't control it. Hell I don't even try anymore, that's the truth. At least with her Mom and Aunt I held back some....... I think, I'm pretty sure I did, maybe....... but with Ava, no freaking way, I have no control. It's the beauty of being a grandchild, the grandparents have a moral obligation and downright legal right to spoil and pamper in any way , shape, or form, so help me God!!!! At least I'm not the only one doing it, both her Nana's and Grandpa are just as guilty as me. Remember, we have a moral obligation and God given right, by golly!! At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!! In the end, I think I got the most out of that deal, I got to watch my Ava Rose light up with a big smile and make her feel special, which she is, no doubt.
And she got some furry slippers from Beall's.......... Come on, you knew it was gonna happen.......
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