Happy Birthday Early... I guess

Jack loves stuffed animals.

He only has one that he can really call his own.

Ella has many. You can imagine how upset and frustrated she gets when he's constantly stealing some of her best friends.

So when thinking of things to get Jack for his birthday, a stuffed animal was a no brainier.

A few weeks ago Ryan and I went to Ikea, knowing that they would have the main gift needed for our little man. {You'll have to wait and see} While there Ryan found the most perfect "boy" stuffed animal. A BIG bull dog.

So excited we kept it hidden the whole way through the store and when we got home I hid him up in my closet saved for such things.

Until... the other day when Ella opened that door.

She knows better then that. Stinker.

As luck would have it, Jack was sitting right there! You should have seen his eye's light up when he saw that stuffed friend!

Wrapped with a big red bow, his head sticking out of a large bag.

I tried closing the closet and pretending that nothing was in it.

Ha, there's not a stuffed animal in there!

But it was too late. Jack stood at the door screaming "Dog-Dog!"

Now "dog-dog" is never far out of Jack's reach.

And Ella CAN'T touch him. This time, it's all Jacks!

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{Do you think that he calls it dog-dog because he's Jack-Jack?}