Operation Mummy's Present

After playing in our new blanket house for a good hour and a half Mum was getting worried and came to see if we were OK........OK we were better than OK,we had Peanuts, Apples, something to drink, some books,blankets (Mana had her pillow and her car) we were set.

But Mana and I had a very important mission to complete.

Using the "excuse " of going to the Mitre 10 hardware store to buy some timber for my next "Bob the builder " project "Operation Mummy's Present" had a green light.

I had already pre-ordered the timber and we just had to pay and pick it up,this gave us a small window of opportunity to "SNEAK" off to the local jeweller's to get something for Keiko's Birthday on Monday.
Mana went from display to display and found a very small and very cute set of "Thread earrings" and told me that "Mummy will like that" I asked her why and she said "Because,because,because Mummy likes this one because its kawaii......" Who can argue with logic like that?
Next came the "Now Mana......DONT TELL MUMMY......Mana look at me,DONT tell mummy........Wakata???" (OK?)
A very positive and cherry "HAIIIIIIIIIII" still alittle unsure I repeated step 1 and 2 again and again I got the "HAIIIIIIII" but as well as that I got the look of "GEES Dad I said yes already ....what more do you want???"

Mana played with the toys there while the staff were wrapping it and when they finished I had asked Mana to bring her purse and her money to pay for it,she had no problem "digging" out all six 50 cent pieces and giving me TWO.........I told her that we needed more and with a look of sadness and disbelief she started handing over some more (1 by 1) each coin that left her little hand was accompanied with a look of "MORE????" so cute (and yes if you could see the look you too would be a little emotionally) but she didn't stop and I think (I hope) her little 4 year old brain clicked onto that valuable lesson.
Anyhoo still unsure that she could keep it a secret we spent a good 15 minutes looking for a Birthday card (my hope is that the whole card thing will distract her enough from the sparkly kawaii thing) as I said this involved a entire 15 minutes of picking up each card and studying the animal,angel,flower,rainbow,car,princess and numbers on them........we finally decided!
On arriving home she "blurted" Mummy we brought you a card.............and that was it!!!

This is where the "Austin Powers","Spy Who Shagged me","Goldmember" Doctor Evil laugh comes in.............Whooaaaaaa,whoaaaaa.....