Saturday fun

Mommie has lots of plans for this Saturday. Some went well, others not so well.

The first stop of the day was a stop at Target. Target sent out a 10% off coupon for everything let on the baby registry. The deal was you have one day to use it, you can't use the coupon each time you go back to the store. I had explained my plan to Chris and when we got in the car I asked both the boys if they were going to work with me today and not whine while we were in the store.

Yes, I have to ask both the boys, CHRIS AND CHRISTIAN. A normal Target outing with both the boys is usually cut short and I leave frustrated. Chris will usually start to get anxious being in the store with Christian, worrying about his getting restless...this leads to Chris rushing me and saying we don't need to get that now, can it wait for later. This is what leaves me frustrated because I have things I want to accomplish on my shopping trip. So this time I made it clear, that wasn't going to happen today. Both boys get an A for the Target shopping trip. They don't get A+s because Chris said the words "Do we have to get that today?" to me once and Christian kept pushing off his Daddy and that meant the basket was pushed into me.

After the Target trip I come home and unpacked and put up all the baby items. The nursery is really coming together and I would say it is done, except baby isn't here yet. He will be the finishing touch.

After lunch and nap time we all headed off to Build A Bear. My idea behind going to Build A Bear was to have Chrisitan make a bear for the baby as a gift when they 1st meet. Again, I asked if the boys were going to behave. Chris has already mentioned he heard "Don't Build A bears cost a fortune?". That told me he wouldn't be able to go to the store with out seeing dollar signs everywhere. This generally gets me on edge, because I want it to be fun, but of course I don't want to waste money either. So in we go.

Christian decided on which animal he would build for Little Brother. He chose a velvet teddy bear. They are supposed to be really good for asthma. He helped the lady stuffing the bear by stepping on the stuffing machine. Then he picked out a little heart to put in the bear and gave it several kisses before putting it in. Then we move on to the clothes aisle. He is where we kept is pretty low cost. We let Christian pick out a shirt for baby brother's bear and we kept it at that. Christian picked out a yellow shirt with a RACE CAR on it..surprise, surprise.

Then we moved onto the certificate phase. Here Christian and I kept butting heads. He liked playing with the computer but it made it hard for me to enter the correct information when he kept hitting the start over button. So Daddy came thru and entered the data on another computer while Christian and I played on another one. Then we checked out. Dadddy didn't have a heart attack when we paid for it, so I guess we didn't go over budget too much. Or maybe I had made myself clear that he didn't have much of a choice, so he just stayed quiet.

Then Christian didn't want to leave the mall, he also didn't want to hold either Mommie or Daddy's hand while in the parking lot, this is not an option, so we both grabbed a hand and BOY was he unhappy.

Then we thought about going to this new old fashioned candy store on South Congress (yes, I said new old fashion...it opened in Nov. of 2007, but looked like it should be been there since 1890). It is called Big Top Candy. It is very retro. It has a cool soda fountain and tons of candy, old and new. It was fun, but Christian wanted to explore a little too much for Daddy's comfort, so all you heard was "I want that" from Christian and then "No, Christian, don't touch that" from Daddy. Of course Christian got to have some candy and he did get to pick it out himself, but he would have taken one of everything in the whole store if he had been given the chance. We each picked out some candy and we each selected an ice cream treat. But again, Christian didn't want to leave and Daddy had to carry him out of the store.

On a side note, we parked directly in front of an old fashion barber shop. Now I say old fashion here and mean OLD barber shop. I really think it is the same shop my grandfather, Paw-Paw (CL Hocker SR.) went to. I would spend summers with Matilda and Paw-Paw and I could swear that was the same shop he went to back them. I took a few pictures. The sign on the door said since 1933. So maybe it is the same store.

Here are all the pictures from the day's outings.