Kids Win, Parents Fail

This week we found out that Snow White and Her Favorite Dwarf (Punky and Buddy) won second place in the 4th of July Kiddie Parade.  Not too bad since there were only two entries in their category!  The prize was $15.

We decided to go to the toy store and let Punky and Buddy each choose something.  The first aisle we stopped in had lots of animal figures.  Buddy picked out a 3 foot triceratops, a bucket of dinosaurs, a giraffe, a baby giraffe, a polar bear, a grizzly bear, a panda bear, and a hippopotamus.... in about 60 seconds.  We tried explaining to him that we were just going to get one toy, but he wouldn't let anything go.  I headed back to the front of the store to get a cart and then loaded Buddy and all his choices into the cart so we could help Punky find a toy.

Punky looked up and down every.single.aisle... two times... and still couldn't decide on one thing.  She looked at dolls, princesses, games, puzzles, books, Dora, Olivia, and Littlest Pet Shops.  She's been asking for a game called Pop the Pig, but it cost too much.  She randomly found a baton misplaced in one of the aisles and wanted to get it.  I showed her how to play with it by twirling it and gently tossing it in the air.  She decided she wanted the baton, tossed it HIGH in the air and (of course) caught it right in the eye.  She's got a little shiner now and just like that, we were back to square one.  After looking through the aisles another time, she found a Bubble Guppies coloring book that comes with watercolors.

After tearing the extra toys away from Buddy and listening to 10 minutes of him screaming, we went to the front of the store to pay for his bucket of dinosaurs and Punky's coloring book.  We were already in the store for nearly an hour and it was now past bedtime.  As we were driving home, Buddy kept repeating "My didosaurs, open, my didosaurs, open".  Daddy told him we had to wait until we got home, but the little stinker somehow managed to get the cellophane off the package.  Punky was set on painting a picture before bedtime.  I set a timer and she got to paint for ten minutes, but of course, she wasn't done, so it turned into 20 minutes.  We probably shouldn't have tried to squeeze a trip to the toy store in on a busy week night.  It was a disaster, but one I hope I remember forever.