My $50 Store

Aloha Friday!

My Question:
What store always cost you more money than you ever wanted to spend when you shop at that store?
Does your store always hit a minimum dollar amount?

My Answer:
Target
Target is my $50 minimum store. I don't care if I walk in with a list that has 2 items on it. By the time I get to the check out I have spent at least $50. It happens every single time.

I need to throw on the blinders and grab only what is on my list. Yet I never do and as I am walking through the store I say,

Oh I need laundry soap,
oh we need tissue's,
oh look they have tumbler cups on clearance for $1
Oh and don't even let me step foot in the baby department and start looking at the clearance clothing racks. Ugh....

I so love Target and yet I so hate Target.

The worst part is Target is right up the street from my work so I frequent it often. I am willing to bet they are smiling every time they see me walking into their store.

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All Scratched Up

So for a while now I have been saying Thomas is 19 months old and then it came to me that I have been saying this for a couple months now. So I did the math and wouldn't you know he is now 22 months. How did that happen!


Anyway on to my Wordful Wednesday. My son has decided to start fighting at the ripe young age of 22 months. While at the sitters on Monday he got into a fight with her son who is 2 and twice the size of Thomas. Lets just say they were pulling hair, scratching and biting. Neither of them cried but they were both pretty mad.

Here are some photos of just how scratched up Thomas got. He didn't scratch the other boy because we keep his nails really short, however he was the one leaving behind his teeth impressions.

Here is a nice cheek scratch. Oh excuse the bottle he is to old for this but to stubborn to ever give it up.


Here is a large scratch on the same side but down by his ear.


Finally the opposite cheek and its double scratches. This poor thing looks like he got into a fight with a cat.

So you ask what in the world would get them going? A tiny little yellow car!

I would like to say I don't approve of this behavior and it is so new to me. My oldest son is so passive that I have never had to deal with this before. Any advice on managing this type of behavior is welcome.

Go visit Angie at 7 Clown Circus for more great Wordful Wednesday post.

4th of July

For the fourth of July every year we drive to the city to see their fireworks. Now they always have their fireworks on the 3rd and that is fine with me because we can then sit in our backyard and watch the local ones on the 4th.

We get downtown and we find our usual spot but decide to move over a bit into this parking lot that is normally closed off but was open this year. It was nice that it was open because it gave people more room to spread out. At least I thought it was nice before the fireworks began.

We were seated directly across from the fence that was the cut off line for where people can no longer sit. This was such a bad choice. The fireworks started and we are sitting in flying debris central. Seriously, they closed this lot in the past for a reason obviously so why did they open it this year. I got smacked in the face by some large chunk that fell from the sky, Eric got ash in his eye and near us a flaming piece came down and landed right in front of this little boy. Talk about to close for comfort. I was busier watching for flying objects and falling flames than I was enjoying the fireworks.

So now this is my note to self, do not sit in parking lot next year.

Luke loves going to see fireworks every year. The noise has never bothered him but he always wears ear plugs. Now Thomas went last year and didn't react. This year at 19 months old he freaked out. As soon as the bangs began he was climbing me like a cat. Scared to death! We took noise cancellation head phones and put those on him and he seemed to calm down. But his eyes bugged out of his sockets as he clung to me watching. Poor thing!

When the finally hit and the bangs really kicked up I think he stopped breathing because his whole body was so tense and you know he could still hear even with the head phones.

I just hope that next year he isn't as scared. We love the fireworks and I would hate to have to miss them. Of course I would do that just for my babies.

(SORRY I TOOK NO PICTURES THIS YEAR) I don't know what is wrong with me here lately I have keep forgetting my camera.

Cover His Ears

We were off on Friday and we decided to take Luke to see the new Transformers movie that he has been just dying to see. Luke loves the first Transformers movie and he watches it over and over on DVD. He has become a huge Transformers fan.

Now I would just like to say to the movie makers of Transformers II why, why, why?

We took my 6 year old to see the second Transformers and the language in the movie was so inappropriate. I was so mad at the language in the movie because I am sitting in the theater with a 6 year old just in shock at what I am hearing. So uncalled for and so inappropriate for a movie that they know kids are going to want to see. Especially after the success of the first one and the excitement it generated from kids. Yes the first movie had a touch of language but not nearly as bad as the second one. They took a really good movie and made it inappropriate for kids.

What makes me madder is they targeted the movie to kids. For the last month Nickelodeon has shown previews and sneak peaks of the movie to the kids. They are part of the reason my son was so excited to go see the movie. I thought the movie was good but so much of the language was uncalled for and could have been replaced with something else. REALLY WHY TAKE A GOOD MOVIE AND DIRTY IT UP?

Have you seen the movie? Have you ever taken your kids to a movie and were surprised by something in the movie that you did not expect?