Retail Therapy??

Yesterday we had a bunch of errands to run down by the mall. We picked the big kids up at dismissal time so we wouldn't have to wait for them to take the bus home. We got to the mall around 3:30 and stopped at the Things Remembered shop to have a name plate engraved then to the frame shop ( more on this in another post) then we took the kids to get pizza in the food court. This is when we started to lose them! After the early dinner I needed to go shopping for an outfit to wear to an upcoming wedding, the boys also needed so wedding clothes, tricky to find something not too fancy and not too casual. We dragged them through clothing store after clothing store making them wait while I looked through dresses and skirts. Then horror of all horrors I had to stop into Victoria's Secret to get a new bra. Thankfully Daddy was able to take them out to the toys and games shop near by. Thankfully for them, I think Daddy was a little disappointed by the side trip. Of course they wanted to buy everything on the shelves and we told them NO since we were hear for clothes not to buy toys. They also had a chance to walk through the Disney store. After going through the whole mall I came up empty handed. The kids really liked the suit coats they tried on at Sears but they were $60 each because they also came with pants which they didn't need.

On to the next area, we hit Target and Old Navy again NOTHING. It's after 8 pm we needed to get the kids home and in bed since there was school the next day and they were beat.

On the drive home we were listening to the comedy station on Sirius radio some of the kids were dosing off in the back.

Suddenly there comes this piercing wail and sobs from the back seat "I HAD ENOUGH! I HAD ENOUGH!"

Through the sobs we were trying to console Dean all we could make out was "I had enough of red" We thought he was dreaming about something. So we said it was just a dream and he screamed back "NO IT WASN'T. I HAD ENOUGH!"

We were totally confused after about 10 minutes we finally figured out what in the world he was talking about.

There was this tiny stuffed dog toy for sale at Old Navy that dean wanted. It was $4.95 it was a chihuahua that looked like one of his favorite Webkinz and he wanted us to buy it for him. We said no so he put it back and we left. No real argument we never gave it a second thought.

Obviously Dean had been giving it a lot of thought and suddenly in the car he had a breakthrough. For Easter, 2 days ago, Grammy had given him $5 in an Easter card (1 dollar for each year of his age). He HAD ENOUGH FOR FRED. By this time we were almost home and he was begging us to turn the car around and go back for him. NO way ! It was nearly 9! We had to get home and the store wouldn't even be open by the time we got there.

No matter then, he announced, we would drive back the next day. With a half an hour car trip each way to the mall his $5 dog would cost us more in gas money!

Today Paul has a dentist appointment hopefully after the appointment he could zip over to mall which is somewhat nearby and pick up Dean's dog and surprise him. Dean better be ready to fork over his Easter money when Daddy delivers the goods!

UPDATE:

I guess the surprise was on MOM. Daddy came home with TWO dogs for Dean.

FRED JR. FRED(original) FRED DANIEL