Foiled plans....

So the plan was to get Ella a bike for Christmas.... I've been getting all my birthday/christmas shopping done early this year so I don't have to deal with it latter on - December is way to busy - and I hate the crowds in the stores. So I've been looking at bikes and helmets and everything trying to find one that Matt would approve of and that would be a good bike for her. I got her helmet on Monday night - but I was so tierd when I got home from shopping that I just left the bags by the door - I had completely forgotten about the helmet. Well, Ella found the helmet the next morning and automatically assumed that it was hers - she thinks everything is hers. She didn't connect the helmet to bikes - so I figured it wouldn't be a problem, she could play with it and it would just be gone one morning. Well Matt had duty tuesday so he didn't see her playing with it and I forgot to make it disapear that night - so when he got home from work on Wednesday she ran and put it on to show daddy her helmet - his first question was where is your bike? She didn't have a bike - I hadn't bought one yet - but Matt didn't believe me - hello if I bought one where was I hiding it? I finally convinced him that there wasn't a bike - but Ella automatically started saying that her bike was lost, gone, and then all of a sudden she was saying Mommy took it!!! So Matt decided that I was going to take her to get a bike right then. I told him he could do it - because it was supposed to be her christmas gift - we ended up going as a family to toys 'r us and got her a bike. Daddy won - he said if I didn't want her to have her bike then I shouldn't have gotten her a helmet and then given it to her - but I say that if he hadn't mentioned a bike we wouldn't have had a screaming child wanting her bike 'back'.
Ella doesn't know how to pedal - so I took her out yesterday - basically it was mommy pushing and stearing and Ella rang the bell - not really what I wanted to do - but it was good exercise for me. Maybe we will work on trying to teach her how to pedal some more today - if it stops raining - on second thought - daddy can teach her since it was his idea to get the bike in the first place.