I took the kids to the market today. It was just a short little shopping trip and they loved it especially because we got one of the carts that has the car you get to drive. Both of them sat happily through the entire shopping trip. Besides Lexi climbing out of the side of the car and Hunter poking her in the eye, I would say it went rather well. We have had much worse, you know the kind of shopping trips when you grab the kids and just leave your half full shopping cart stranded on some random aisle of the store because all you know is that you have to get out of the store that second or you are going to lose it!
Anyway, I checked out, took the kids to the car, loaded my groceries into the car and went to grab the kids. When I turned and looked at Lexi she gave me her most mischievous smile and held up a small candy! We did not buy the candy and I knew she thought we were getting away with something. I gave her a very serious look and told her, “Oh, no Lexi we could be in BIG trouble! Did you take that from the store without paying for it?” She nodded yes and slowly began to get more serious. I told her that we needed to go back into the store and pay for the candy, so we would not be in trouble any more. Lexi was dead silent as we walked back to the store. When we got to the front door of the store she looked up at me with tears rolling down her cheeks and her bottom lip quivering and said, “Mommy, I don’t want the police man to get me!”
I took her in the store and told her that no one was going to take her and that we were just going to go get in line and pay for the candy. We got in line and she pointed to where the candy went on the shelf and said, “I don’t even want the candy anymore!” She was so upset we ended up just putting the candy back on the shelf and walking out of the store.
