Keeping a secret

We went to a department store to buy toys for the children's Christmas presents.  Dominic and Pia and Sammy were with us, so any notion of buying things in secret was out of the question.  We just decided to let them pick out one toy each. 

The children went through the toy section store, picking one toy then replacing it with another, and then another, and then another.

Pia's choices were a revelation.  She always picked toy horses each time.  Eventually picked out a stuffed toy unicorn,  half as big as she was.

Daddy: Listen, we are buying these toys for Christmas ok?  You cannot play with them yet.  You will open them for Christmas.

Pia: (arms around the stuffed toy she will be getting for Christmas) Daddy, you should wrap this toy when I am eating in the kitchen so that I will not know what it is.

Daddy: (ok...) Good idea.  But you must promise not to look when we are wrapping that unicorn ok?  Otherwise, you will know what's inside.

Pia: I promise.

Daddy: And you must not peek.

Pia: I won't.

 

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