Category Archives: Shopping

Shopping with toddlers

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Dolly in general is a well-behaved and happy child. However I don’t know what happens to  her when it comes to shopping.  On the very rare occasion I take Dolly clothes shopping with me to one store, as soon as she enters the shop door my child transforms into a someone I don’t know.

As I am browsing the clothes I then witness Dolly running around with statically charged hair after hiding in among the clothes.

I discover parts of the shop I would never have seen had it not been for chasing Dolly around.

Once we manage to get into a changing room without her trying to take her clothes and shoes off, just as I am trying a garment on she announces she really needs to go to the toilet.

You know it must be really bad when my very patient mother hands Dolly over to me and tells me that she can no longer handle the situation !!

Dora the Explorer and the Garden Centre

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This afternoon Dolly and I went to the garden centre to look at the Easter display, I think everyone else had the same idea as it was exceptionally busy.

After spending a long time in the garden centre once we returned to the car, Dolly started laughing at me;

Dolly:   Mama, look at your hair !!

Me:      What’s happened?

Dolly:   It’s Dora the Explorer, I put her in your hair, she’s very pretty.

Feeling around the back of my hair it dawned on me how I must have looked from behind having had a large sticker of “Dora the Explorer” stuck to the back of my head that had followed me from our house and all the way around the garden centre.

It reminded me of having lipstick stuck to your teeth, where people notice but no one points it out to you….