Yesterday afternoon Cameron opened the back of my van while we were doing yard work and found her ^%&*%# Baby Alive.
I told her it was a gift for her cousin and she TOTALLY flipped.

Here is the conversation:
C: MOMMY, look!!!
M: oh s--t! Cam honey, put that back. It's for Lily for Christmas.
C: But MOMMY, It's what I want!
M: (Said as I'm unclenching her grasp) Cam, that's not yours though. You've already told Santa you want one and he's probably getting it ready right now.
C: (People think I'm abusing my child by now because she's so hysterical) I'll email Santa and tell him nevermind!
M: Cam, you can not have that one. It's Lily's and Mommy can't buy another one.
C: Well I'll take this one and we can give Santa's to Lily!

OMIGOSH! She makes a convincing argument but Mommy did NOT cave. She gave it a good try though.

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Jen

Oh man! That just happened to my sister too. Can you make it a Christmas gift from you and not Santa or does she seem OK with things now?

Oh, no! Well, at least you know she'll love it!

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Agh! That is totally one of my fears for G's b-day/Christmas. He already found T's stuff (not trying to hide it really), but he still flipped out and insisted T get one of his toys right then (I did cave... ). Thank God he's too young to realize that if I'm stashing stuff for T, I'm also stashing stuff for him.

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I think we're OK. I guess my niece is getting a Baby Alive too though, lmao!

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Jen

OOOH...yeah, now you HAVE to get one for Lily! Or then C may be really confused!

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LOL I am sorry she found it. I am glad that K hasn't found anything yet. Last year was the first year we didn't take her shopping with us.

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Benny and Shan March 30th 2002

Jax literally searches the house (and my parents house) for things. This year I started putting stuff in the garage b/c he rarely goes in there and we have so many old toys in there anyway that he might not notice the new ones!!

I'm sorry C found her toy, but like Jana said, at least you know she'll LOVE it!!! haha

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I told her tonight that I was going to take Lily's present back to the store. I let her know that it wasn't fair that she knew what her cousin was getting because it would ruin her fun. Whew!!!

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Jen

I used to keep things at work until Christmas Eve because of Brenden snooping..

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