After many days of asking " Mama can you buy me the blue Ariel like Mia Catchpole?", I succumbed and took Mia down to the Wanchai market's toy lane to find this little toy. A little bit of background on this - we'd gone for a playdate at her classmate Mia Catchpole's house (these two little girls are called Mia Ngam and Mia Catchpole by all the teachers and children in their class!) a couple of weeks earlier and Mia spent the whole afternoon playing with a small Ariel figurine. When it was time to leave, she had a meltdown, refusing to let go of it. After 10 minutes of talking calmly, reasoning, bribing unsuccessfully, I finally had to pry it out of her hands and carry her screaming out of the house. Talk about embarrassing!
Trip number 1 was to go and buy the Ariel toy. We spent a long time walking through the toy shop looking for a pink Ariel but all we could find was Ariel in a blue dress. It took a great deal of persuading but in the end I managed to convince her that the sparkly blue dress was much, much prettier.
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| She was so excited, Ariel was everywhere! |
Trip number 2 was to buy an Ariel dress but we could only find the ones with a tail. Mia was very clear in telling us that she wanted the "pink dress" which is the costume Ariel wore towards the end of the Little Mermaid movie when she turned into a princess. After looking at a few stalls, we finally settled for Snow White instead.
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| Daddy met us for a pre-market lunch |
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| We saw some pretty fishies along the way |
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| and cute little turtles too |
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| And here's our little princess |
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| ...complete with her red bow |
Such a nice outing! Wish we had something similar here. We made a trip to Preston Market instead during the school hols and the kids thought it was fun.
ReplyDeleteMiss Mia certainly knows her mind! And the BIG bowl of rice still popular eh.