Early Ornament Shopping

A couple weekends ago, the three of us went to the mall to get Bean's Halloween costume. While we were there, we did some shopping, grabbed some dinner, and on the way out we stopped at Hallmark to see what ornaments were available this year. We were just going to look around when I spotted "the ornament." Usually, Dustin finds one that cracks him up, Xavier points to the ones that he wants, and I just pick one that is cute. This year, though, an ornament finally spoke to me! When I showed Dust, he knew instantly, too. It is Dumbo and his mama. When you push the button, the ornament sings "Baby Mine" which is the song I have sung to Xavier every night of his life!

I was so excited to have found it and told Dust that when we had "ornament day" in November, that I would get that one. He insisted that I get it that day though because I never found ornaments that "spoke to me." (We take ornaments very seriously, can you tell? haha)

I looked underneath the display where the boxed ornaments were and there was only one Dumbo left while all of the others had tons! At that point, Dust didn't give me a choice-- he made me get it :)

I was apprehensive because "ornament day" is one of my favorite days of the year and I hated doing something so special on a non-special day but Dust assured me that this way we would have two ornament days…so I went with it :)

Xavier LOVED looking at all of them and picked out a turtle sandbox that was ADORABLE. Ok, maybe I pressured him a little bit….

Anyway, we decided to wait on the turtle sandbox ornament because he picked out several that he wanted. We decided that he could pick his ornament when Daddy got his.

Just like his sandbox!

We realize it is weird to buy an ornament the first weekend in October, but we had fun and I love my ornament!!!!!