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Girl, 5, Asks to Go Shopping with Her Allowance Money. Then Her Mom Can't Believe What She Decided to Buy (Exclusive)
By Georgia Slater Published on March 26, 2026 02:36PM EDT
A little girl is going viral for her unexpected choice of what she wanted to spend her allowance on.
Taylor Dinelli, a mom of three, recently took her 5-year-old daughter Ella shopping when she said she wanted to spend her allowance money. The two went to Hobby Lobby and Dinelli says Ella immediately fell in love with a painting she saw in one of the aisles.
Taylor, who shares her three kids with husband Garrett Dinelli, later showed off Ella's purchase with a now-viral video on TikTok, revealing the little girl's new decor: a recreation of the famous painting Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy.
"My five-year-old wanted to go shopping to spend her allowance money. She was so thrilled when she saw this and said it is exactly what she’s been looking for and that she’s never seen anything so beautiful!" Taylor wrote across the video, in which Ella excitedly displays the framed painting.
Taylor says her daughter spent around $20 on the painting, and she "gasped when she saw it in the aisle and ran right over to it and asked if we could get it."
"Ella is definitely a little history buff! She loves learning about the presidents and has ever since she learned about Mount Rushmore in kindergarten!" the mom of three tells PEOPLE. "She has a 3-D printed Mount Rushmore in her room that she actually brought into show & tell to show her class!"
The little girl loves to watch presidential documentaries, and Taylor says that, currently, Ella's favorite presidents are Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.
"Her favorite song is the national anthem and she sings that any event she can!" adds Taylor.
Taylor admits she's "shocked" by the response her video has gotten online.
"The video has over 1 million views on my Instagram account! The comments have been so lovely and inspiring for Ella as I show her all of the other women who are commenting that have made a career from loving history!" she says.
Taylor says she initially thought the clip would be a sweet memory to have to look back on and remember her daughter's "phase of loving history."
However, after seeing all the feedback from her video, the mom of three says, "it seems like maybe it won't be a phase," and she hopes her little girl's love of history will continue to flourish.
"If you don’t get her a Felicity American girl doll immediately 😩," one user wrote, while another added, "I can’t wait for her to discover Hamilton."
"History major in the making," another user commented.
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