The other night a small group of family celebrated Jeff's brother becoming a licensed mechanic. And having a mechanic in your immediate family really IS something to celebrate when your car is showing signs of the infirmity of advanced age.
We went out to a new Chinese restaurant, ate at the yummy buffet, and presented Joel with such tokens as an engraved crescent wrench and a box of tools made from chocolate (you can get ANYTHING in chocolate!)
But his favourite present was a small pocket-knife in a little leather case that his seven-month-old daughter procured for him. Seems my baby niece has sticky fingers and palmed the little present when she was being held up at counter-level in the engraving shop.
Mommy went back and paid for it when the little cherub owned up to the theft in the parking lot. Heh, baby's first crime. :)
We're hoping she's getting the rebellious stage out of her system while she's still in diapers...
The little knife will no doubt be treasured as its definitely the first gift to her father that she's picked out on her own.
3 comments:
TOO cute! I'd treasure it too :)
At least I wasn't around...no one can blame me!
They ALL do it. Steve manage to grab a $20 rattle and stuff it in his mouth (therefore I had to buy it) in a baby boutique, and Cammy was more subtle, it was a candy item at counter height that was unwrapped and consumed so quickly that I only found the wrapper evidence when I was unloading the buggy at the car! Sharon's kids had the baby backbacks so they have managed to grab lots of things without mommy noticing in the tight checkout displays.
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