This morning I was anxious to get out of the house with the boys. Why exactly? I'm not too sure considering it's only 19 degrees and snowing. I forget how much work it is bundling up both boys and myself just for a "quick" trip to the store. But if I don't suck it up and venture out, we'd be stuck inside all day everyday for the next several months as winter has clearly arrived.
So, needless to say, the boys and I bundled up this morning and began just another one of our Walmart adventures that almost always never cease to amaze me. Whether it's the people we see, something we find, or something one of the boys does, a trip to Walmart usually never fails us to be a form of pure Sweet family fun and entertainment. Wow! Did I really just say that a trip to Walmart can be entertaining???!!! What has come of me???!!! Either I need to get out of this town or I'm getting old and it no longer takes much to entertain me.
We begin with some simple grocery shopping. I come across these cute toddler juice bottles with Tigger on top to sip the juice from. I hand it to Liam to keep him occupied as he seems thrilled to have it in hand. He continuously plays with it and tries to drink it as we finish our grocery shopping and head to the kid's winter boot department as we came to discover Aiden's boots no longer fit him so he had to wear his rain boots yesterday to play outside in the snow. I begin to have Aiden try on boots, which quickly became a whining and complaining battle with me having to threaten him that we won't go look at toys if he doesn't cooperate and try the boots on. Next thing I know, the Tigger sippy thing from the juice is on the ground and Liam has poked a hole in the juice cover and was proceeding to drink it and spill it all down the front of him! This is something he loves to do at home as well. He gets into the fridge, grabs a little smoothie, pokes a hole in the top with his teeth and sucks on it until it's either gone or spilled all over the place. Anyways, I become distracted with the juice fiasco, put the Tigger lid back on and toss it into the cart. I finally get Aiden to try on a pair he picked out himself - camouflage ones of course - and he miraculously likes them and they fit. He tosses them into the cart and we're officially "done" shopping.
At the end of each of our shopping trips there I always let the boys look at the toys for a few minutes if they were good. For the most part they were this time, so onward to the toy section we go. Not to mention this gives me some time to scope out toys to get them for Christmas as well. Liam is now cleaned up from the juice, we got all our groceries, got Aiden new boots and were having fun checking out all the new toys that have come in since our last visit when all of a sudden Aiden says, "Mom, my shoe is missing!" I look down at his feet and sure enough his shoe was missing! Did I seriously forget to put his shoe back on after trying on boots and he seriously just walked across the entire store with only one shoe on?! OMG! I couldn't help but begin to laugh hysterically. We instantly rush back to the boot section and sure enough there was his shoe. Thank goodness it was still there! We quickly get his shoe back on and head to check out when Aiden picks up a candy cane filled with candy Runts. I agree to get them for him and we once again, head to check out. As I quickly whip our stuff through the self checkout lane I all of a sudden hear a quiet crash and there went the plastic candycane onto the floor where it broke open and Runts went everywhere. I silently began to count to 3 in my head just waiting for the explosion of cries and tears that were sure to follow. 1, 2, 3.....whhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mom is always right! Thankfully the checkout lady was very sweet and understanding and sent someone to get him a new candy cane. The poor boy could barely breathe by the end of the incident. Hmmmm.....maybe I should keep a bag of Runts around for bribery if he loves them that much.
By the time I was done checking us out and putting everything in our cart I was in need of some serious deep breaths. I bundled us back up and headed back out into the cold for the drive home. Thank you Walmart for the laughs, tears, smiles, good deals, people watching and pure craziness that lead to our little adventures and break up the monotony of our days at home. Until next time....
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