I am an evil parent.
A week or so back, we were invited to go on a very lovely weekend press trip. I could have told my daughter about it right away. But where would be the fun in that?
So instead, I told her we were going on a really fun, super exciting trip to MATHS CAMP.
At first she didn't believe me. But once I'd taught her the official Maths Camp song she started to believe I was actually serious. It's a great song, too:
Maths Camp, we're going to Maths Camp
We're going to have such fun, fun, fun
Maths Camp, we're going to Maths Camp
And we'll do hard sums, sums, sums
Poetic, I am sure you'll agree. And as you can see from the photo above, Flea was pretty psyched about Maths Camp.
Anyway, last Friday morning, disgustingly early, we arrived at St Pancras Station where I broke the news that, actually, we weren't going to be going to Maths Camp after all. As you can see, she took the news pretty hard.
Oh bless her! I love this!! You were so good at keeping it from her! I was practically bursting the minute I was invited 😉
aaaw she is too stinking cute!
How amazing, and what a great reaction. How did you keep that secret?
You are a stronger person than me! SO hilarious and LOVE her reaction! 😀
I know but it was worth it when I saw how surprised she was – bless her.
She’s a keeper.
Because it was so MUCH fun singing the Maths Camp song all week and watching her slowly get taken in…?
Arf. I don’t think I’ve been hugged that much in quite a while!
I am SO pleased you videoed that – what a great reaction 🙂
Evil… or brilliant?
Awwwwww…….. it made me really smile to see all that joy 🙂
Bad Mummmy! Great Vlogger though 😉 I’m quite excited just looking at the video, how over the top would I get if I actually went – hope (no, know) she had the time of her life!
She’s so cute! Lovely reaction 🙂 and I admire your willpower in keeping up the pretence all week!
oh what a great way to break the news!! bet you had such a fab time!
Oh bless her, I just laughed along with her, and now I find myself crying! I hope she had a fantastic time!
Shame about missing Maths camp though – maybe you can do that next weekend. (btw – I teared up a bit when watching her hear the good news)
Had to be done!
I like to think both, of course…
Me too!
We had a brilliant time, thanks!
I can commit to evil acts, it’s true.
We really did, it was a wonderful weekend.
Aw, bless!
I’ve told her we can always do maths camp any weekend she chooses. She looked at me like I was bonkers.
You are definitely not an evil mom, your daughter looks really cute with that hair!
Vun De Ba!
Hope you had a superb time x
Awww! This SO reminds me of when I took my daughter there for Christmas. She was about the same age as Flea is now, and it was magical! Of course, we only lived up the road in Paris at the time, and she was actually born in Lagny which is just round the corner from Disney anyway… but it was no less magical for that. I just love Flea’s face when she found out. Brilliant!
Yeah… but it could have gone like this…. http://travelllll.com/2011/10/29/waaaaaah-i-dont-wanna-go-to-disneyworld/ 😉