Chompo bars and MMs

It's Ben's birthday on Saturday and Amelia loves birthdays. Every day she has run to calendar to see how many more days until Ben's birthday and tries to get him excited about it. I think she has enough excitement for both of them!! We took a trip to library last week and got a birthday book, "A Birthday for Frances". If you haven't read this author's Frances series, you are missing out. They are fantastic. here you can look at it more. To sum up, Frances decides to buy her little sister a Chompo candy bar and 2 gumballs with all her allowance for her birthday. On the walk home from the candy store, Frances accidentally eats the gumballs and then decides that her sister is too little for a candy bar and maybe she will just eat some of it and give her what's left. She resists and in the end she gives her sister the uneaten Chompo bar and an IOU for 2 gumballs and is really glad she gave her sister the candy.
Amelia was counting her piggy bank money yesterday and decided that when we went to the store, she wanted to buy Ben a present with her money (she had about a dollar in change). I didn't want to squash her generosity, so I told her she could buy something and I would pay for the rest. Then Phil had a brilliant idea that she buy him some of his favorite candy, MM's is what we call them, like Frances and the Chompo bar. Amelia ran the entire length of the mall to Target to get it. She had her purse with the money inside and the checker was so sweet about it. Then she wrapped it up in a bag and put it in her purse to hide it then ran all the way back to the other end of the mall to find Ben and say she got him a present but he can't look!!! It was the cutest thing I think I have done with her in a really long time. She keeps going to her purse and checking that it's there and then hiding it then changing the location of where she is hiding it so he doesn't find it. Waiting another 2 days is so torturous for her. I am so proud she hasn't spoiled it yet.