What a Girl wants!
It was just a couple months ago…Tyce and I took all the kids school shopping and I had found some really cute shoes for myself in the Target shoe department…I was trying them on, and my girls were trying heels on too. After I decided which ones I wanted, I told them to put the shoes back, and let’s go. Alexis put hers back and then my youngest child Jocelyn (age 6 at the time) held tightly to a pair of red high heels. I said “You need to put those back on the shelf, its time to go” she turned to me with the biggest eyes and said “But mooom, I want these!” I looked at them and said “Don’t be silly, they don’t even fit you and they are too tall for you.” She started to pout as I put them back on the shelf and we walked away. Later in another isle she continued to beg for these pair of high heels that were a size 5 ½ in women’s and she was a size 12 in girls. I thought she is just being so silly. Her sad face then turned into huge tears streaming down her face. Then her dad said “You know what I will buy them IF, they fit you! I thought she would give up on the shoes at this point…but NO way, a burst of sunlight lit her whole face as if it were Christmas morning! She ran back to the shoes faster than we could even turn around. When we got back to where I had set them down, she had already put them on and was walking back and forth. She was bellowing out at the top of her lungs in song “See they fit…Yay, yay I get high heels!” She then picked up her old shoes and said “I will wear them out!” Tyce (her father) kneeled down to her level and said “Sweet heart, they don’t fit, look at the back of your foot, its inches from the back of the shoe.” Tears; once again, began streaming down her face as she defended these Lipstick Red heels “My toes fit perfectly dad, look!” By this time there were many people peeking around the isle to see what all the excitement then sadness was all about! One lady whispered loudly from isles over “Oh come on just buy them for her”! Jocelyn was not going down without a fight. She still had them on, grasping them as tightly as she could. Tyce stood up and looked over at me and said “Now what?” …. I thought a minute and then turned to Jocelyn and said “If this is what you want, and you absolutely think that life cannot go on with out them. I will buy them on a few conditions”…. A smile stretched from ear to ear. “Ok yes I will, what?” she exclaimed. Thinking I was being clever I said “This will be your only birthday gift from us AND they will be put away until your birthday, AND you can only wear them in the house until your feet actually fit them and then you can wear them to church, or somewhere nice, do you understand?” I looked at her with big eyes and a very serious look on my face. At this point I am thinking she will clearly think this is a horrible deal and put them back on the shelf…to my dismay she yells out “DEAL” with a squeal of excitement. I believe my jaw really did drop on the floor. Her siblings were shocked too. Tyce stood there laughing… saying “she does walk pretty well in them”! I looked at Jocelyn and said “Are you sure this isn’t an impulse buy?” “Nope, I want them, this is all I want for my birthday!” she announced as she switched back to her old shoes and hugged the red shoes. Jocelyn kept a tight hug on them as we checked out and all the way home! She handed them to me once in the house and said “Okay mom, save them for me!” I took the shoes, wrapped them in a plastic bag and put them away. Figuring she would forget about them over time. Not one day passed that she would talk about these shoes. I would over hear her talking to her older sister…”by my Birthday I will fit my red heels” and things like this on and on. She also would look for them frantically through the house. Several different mornings she would walk to the side of my bed fairly early and say “pppst Mom, I haven’t seen my red heels, where did you put them?” “Jocelyn you know the deal, you have to wait!” Is all I would say rolling back over. Several times she would ask me, or her dad, “Where’s my shoes” her dad would always say “In the mud room”! “Not those shoes Dad, the special ones, those beautiful high heels!” She seriously drove me nuts; I thought buying them would keep her happy and that she honestly would forget about them. About a month back, Jocelyn and I were doing homework and in the middle of the story she was reading she turned to me and said “I know what you did with those high heels!” I said “You do?” and she got a sad look on her face and said “You took my shoes back to the store when I was at school, didn’t you!” I laughed a little because yes I did think about doing that from time to time. “No, I didn’t take them back, but you need to have a little faith and patience until I give them to you!” Every once in a while she would say “I can’t wait until my birthday”! Which; I have never seen another soul, as excited as this little girl about her birthdays. When she was around 18 months old she caught on to what birthdays were, and everyday she would ask us “Is my birthday today?” without skipping a beat. For her 2nd birthday we bought her a special birthday shirt. She wore it every chance she could get. We told her she could wear it on other people’s birthdays and then when she was three years old it was a birthday bow and she still wears it on everyone’s birthday! Jocelyn is such a happy little girl and gets so excited over the simplest things! So as her birthday slowly approached she would blurt out “Is it ever going to be November 15th!” As time passed in November we talked about the cake she wanted, what kind of treats she wanted to take to school, etc. So a couple days before her birthday I thought “WOW, she actually forgot about her shoes!” Minutes before everyone came over to help us celebrate, I snuck down stairs to where I hid the red shoes and slipped them in a sack and covered it with tissue paper and quietly set it in the corner. Later that evening after she opened all her presents she opened up the sack and once again it was Christmas morning all over her face she cut the tags off and wore them the rest of the evening. Even while wearing her pajamas, she even tried sleeping with them on. The minute she gets home from school she is wearing them, until we ask her to put them away! So I guess it wasn’t an impulse buy like I had thought. That’s what my little girl wanted with her whole heart and she is delighted to have a pair of her very own high heels (that are too big for her)! That just goes to show when a girl makes up her mind…its set! Happy 7th Birthday to my sweet little Baby Jocelyn that no matter how big she thinks she is….she will always be her daddy’s and mommy’s little baby girl! |
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