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Little shopper girl

Sasha has been stir crazy lately. Our car is on it's last leg so we haven't been able to get out of the house very much. So Sasha has been bored of being indoors, cooped up inside the apartment.

We went out to eat today, to get out of the house.
Usually Sasha does great in restauraunts. Lately, she just doesn't want to stay in high chairs. She didn't last long in the high chair today. It didn't take long before she was trying to climb out of it, chanting "down down down up up". 'Up' means 'pick me up', and 'down' means she wants down on the ground. Well we couldn't have her running amok in the restauraunt so we had to hold her. She was not happy with this and fussed almost the whole time. My husband and I had to take turns passing her off to each other while the other tried to eat.
The restauraunt we went to was at a mall, so after we hurried our meal and left, we went strolling around the mall. Sasha was all about the escalators and stairs. My husband let her walk down the stairs. She immediately turned around and went up the escalator with him, then they had to go down the stairs again.
She did NOT want to be carried around. She wanted to walk by herself. If I carried her, she'd start squirming and chanting "down down down".
Her favorite store is the Yankee Candle Company. She LOVES running around the store, sniffing all the scented candles. We bought her a mcintosh apple scented candle. She happily purchased it herself with daddy's credit card.
Then she proudly carried the shopping bag with around the mall with her. She was quite a sight walking around the mall by herself with shopping bag in hand.