Hailey pushing her dolls around in the shopping cart. She always puts one doll in the front and one in the carseat in the back just like we do when we go to the store.

When we woke up this morning, we got ready and took about a one and a half hour trip to go to a Toysrus store. We got a bunch of pink cars on clearance and gave Hailey one for Christmas and Bruce sold the rest on eBay. But when she opened hers on Christmas, the car inside the box was red and not pink like it was supposed to be. Bruce got an Email from one of the buyers on eBay that the one he received was red also. All the pink ones were sold out at our store so Bruce wanted to check the next closest toysrus to us. We also stopped at an outlet mall on the way. I found a few shirts on clearance for the kids and got the pants I wanted. Then we stopped at Fazolis for lunch. There was a tractor parked across the parking lot so I took Max to go up and look at it. He loved seeing it up close and was very excited about it having a "fwat wheel" (flat tire). He kept talking about it and we had to walk all the way around it. It was parked right next to a big hill of snow. He kept saying "Is da fwat wheel stuck in da snow? Is da tractor bwoke?" He wanted to sit right next to the window while we ate so he could look at the tractor. We were just about done eating when a car parked in Max's way so he couldn't see the tractor anymore from where he was sitting. So he moved over to the chair behind him at a table that another lady was sitting at. When we went to move him back to our table, she said he was ok and let him stay at her table so he could see the tractor. He sat there and talked to her the whole time while we finished up eating and cleaned up our mess. It was so funny. He was just carrying on a whole conversation with this lady. He told her how old he was and his sister and brothers name and told her all about the tractor and the flat wheel. When we left, I took him to go look at it one more time. Hailey wanted to come with us this time. He had to tell Hailey all about it and showed her the flat wheel and where the tractor was digging in the snow. He sure gets excited talking about it. He talks much louder when he is excited about something. It was so cute to listen to him. When we got to toysrus, I took the kids to play on the train table while Bruce returned a couple things and looked for the pink cars. They were all sold out at this store too. Too bad, but at least the guy who bought the car wasn't too upset about getting a red one instead once Bruce explained to him that it wasn't his fault and the same thing happened to us. He only has to return the shipping cost and the guy is still going to keep the red one. Bruce was just trying to still get his daughter the pink one that she had wanted. While we were there, we picked a different Thomas set for Max since we had to return his other one cause it was a piece of junk and falling apart. We found one that was much nicer. It even came with a few train cars, a much better deal too. We stopped at Crispy Creams on the way home. The kids liked putting on the hats they gave out. Max ran up to daddy with his hat on and said "Look it daddy. I a donut boy." They were excited to get a "big" donut. They usually get donut holes. We took the car and on the way there and back, Max and Hailey both held Jack's hands. I would look back and they would both have a hand and were leaning over talking to him. It was really cute. Bruce had to leave for work as soon as we got home. I got Max and Jack down for naps. Hailey played with her new CD player. She liked singing in the microphones with the music. After eating dinner, I opened Max's new train set. We set it up in his room and the kids played with it until bedtime.