A seven-year-old's birthday wish list

It's Betty's seventh birthday in just over a week, and boy don't we know it.  She has been doing a countdown since May, and every single day informs us of how many days there are to go.  I just hope that when the big day arrives it's not going to be a massive anti-climax - I am seriously feeling the pressure right now.

While browsing the aisles in Sainsbury's yesterday, I had a little moment of nostalgia.  Those days of her being over the moon at receiving a sticker book, or a pot of glitter from a supermarket are long gone.  Having said this, I do take heart in the fact that she has requested a couple of surprisingly simple (cheap!) items this year.

Here is Betty's birthday wish list (at the time of going to press, anyway):

• Box of Strawberry Fields Tic Tacs - she can make one box last about two months!  Dolly, on the other hand, makes one box last two minutes.

• Disney Princess Belle dress - she requests a Disney Princess dress for every birthday - it's become a Betty tradition.

• Ruby Ducks printed dress - as readers of this blog know, Betty loves her duck, probably even more than she loves us - so for her this dress is PERFECT.

• Ruby Floral printed dress - in fact, the Joules range of girls' dresses is so lovely, she would probably want every single one of them.  

• Pink 'grown-up' camera - for the last few months she has been using an old camera of mine, which has a big crack across the screen - but she has demonstrated her love of picture taking, and is actually quite good.

• Disney Beauty and the Beast DVD - I was thrilled to find this in a Charity Shop the other day!

• Gel Pens - the girl is obsessed with gel pens.

• iPad - jeez.

• Tube of Jelly Beans - that's more like it.

• Book about astronomy and space - after all the girly, pink, princess requests, she threw us a curve ball with this one! 

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