Balloons

Anna Grace isn’t much for shopping.  But, she has learned that there are a few benefits to going to the grocery store: free cookie, possibility of free balloon.  That said, I know full well… and she reminds me… that our little grocery shopping adventure better be wrappin’ up around the time she becomes cookie-less or somebody’s gonna pay… i.e.  me.  On the days when AG decides that she must torture me with some sort of parental embarassement, I (momma) make the following executive decision:

No balloon for you.  (Thus…I am the Balloon Nazi).

Often Anna Grace does end up getting a balloon but those balloons, have, at times, flown away.  In the interest of full disclosure I must give you the following totals:

Balloons lost by Anna Grace:    1

Balloons lost by Mommy: 4

When we go through the check out lane and get the free balloon I try to tie it to the shopping cart, in a knot.  Sometimes AG thwarts this effort.  I have tried to tie it to her wrist but she hates it.  So, my shopping cart plan has worked ok.  But the last two balloons were lost (by me) when I untied it from the shopping cart, put it in the car and some sort of wind/air circulation/physics thing sucked the balloon from the car and sent it toward the heavens.

Well, Tuesday we went to the grocery store.  The balloon made it to the car and I got that puppy in the car and the doors shut without sending another one toward the planets.  So, when we got home I wasn’t about to lose it then.  I tied that baby to AG’s wrist, tied it good, and figured she’d get aggravated but I’d atleast get that baby in the house.

AG was not pleased by this decision but she also wanted to play.  That child ran around the backyard, pushing stuff, climbing, etc while simultaneously trying to untie that balloon from her wrist.  I thought it was pretty cute so I took some photos. 

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And I’d like to report that the balloon is still in our possession.

One response

  1. Just thought I’d share with you my old McDonald’s Birthday Party Hostess trick for getting ballons on the wee ones wrists: make a slip knot (you know, it can become a loop), enlarge the loop so it will slip over their hand and ask them if they want to wear it as a bracelet/watchband. It comes off easily and I never met a kiddo who could refuse that trick. Tell them it’s magic or will let them keep the balloon AND still play.

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