We Did it All for Bob

Bob the Builder that is.

Addy loves the Bob the Builder ride at Babies R Us, and I wanted to go check out some items on a baby registry, so we took an adventure out this morning to the store.

I absolutely have no money in my wallet these days since I haven't been working. NO dollars, no change. So, Doug gave Addy four quarters to take with her to the store so she could ride the Bob the Builder ride. She was so proud of her money and she carried it in the side leg pocket of her pants.

We show up to the store at 9:20am and it opens at 9:30am. Umm, yeah, you don't have to say it. Pathetic...or just super prompt...you decide. As I'm sure you read in my previous post Avery Turns 2 Months, Avery is typically a terrific baby. She's so easy to take places and, as I said, just "goes with the flow". Well, right when we get into the store this morning (and when I say right when, I mean right when) she begins to scream. Not cry, but SCREAM! I was absolutely shocked because my very well-mannered baby just doesn't do this kind of thing. I pick her up, rock her, burp her, and she's still screaming. So we head to the Mother's Room to feed her. She barely drinks and screams the entire time. Addy was quite patient I must say as we were in there for nearly 45 minutes! The whole time Addy would take her quarters out of her pocket and count them, then hold them super tight, then count them again...then she lost one quarter and we found it sitting on some odd ledge thing in the room. BTW, the Mother's Room is not the most lugerious of rooms.

Avery calmed down enough that we could finally start our registry shopping. And, thank goodness, because Addy is now getting very impatient and definitely now wants to ride that most wonderful ride of rides! After finally figuring out the aisles we need to navigate due to the registry pages getting out of order (and they don't have page numbers, and there were quite a few pages) we are finally able to checkout and ride the Bob ride.

Addy's never put the quarters into the ride before, but she inserted 2 quarters and pushed the bright green START button like an old pro! Then she rode it again...because her Daddy was brilliant and gave her enough quarters for 2 rides!

Anyway, here she is enjoying her ride. Avery lost her binky around this time (or maybe I lost Avery's binky) and the ride home in the van was well...I'm sure you can imagine :-)