I’ve been a bad, bad girl…

well, not really…I don’t think. I just did me some shopping!

I’ve never posted any shopping shots before. I wanted to show you Emme Lu’s Christmas present that I bought her yesterday–so you could laugh at me a little:

This is the dragonfly rocker from One Step Ahead. I am so loving its cuteness, its colors, its little knobby antennae. Horses are great rockers. I had one as a child. I bought my nephew a fox terrier rocker-rider toy. But I saw this smiling bug, and I just knew that was the one.

Okay, so say it. Go ahead. Say. It.

IT’S A FREAKING BUG, SBIRD!!

Not only is the rocker a freaking bug, but there’s a FREAKING LADYBUG stuck to its behind!!!

And, not only that, but at least one of the traditional DTC groups–about which you complained relentlessly in an earlier post–is the Dragonflies. WTF?

Um, er…yeah. What can I say? It’s cute. And I couldn’t find a bee.*

Of course, to top it all off, Emme Lu won’t even be home for Christmas this year, unless there is some mighty huge act of the universe involved between now and say…next week. We won’t go pick her up in China until next year. But we do know who she is, we have her pictures, and so I plan on celebrating Christmas with my daughter by wrapping her some presents and putting them under the tree. Then it’ll be Christmas in February when she gets home. She can work out the fact that her momma is date-challenged later in therapy.

Kidding.

* Although, later, I did find a bee to give to The Bee:

Gotta love the expression on that one. It’s from Zebra Hall.

Okay, I’ll take my public flogging now.