suckerrrrrrrrr

Harrison outgrew his bike at the end of last Summer. Sawyer has since gladly claimed it as his own. So a new bike for Harrison was in order, and with nice weather this weekend, I thought I would make a quick stop at Target this afternoon and have him pick one out.

Since it was just H &I after attending his friend's birthday party, the task at hand seemed simple. We headed straight to the bikes (well, by way of the Band-Aides, Soft Soap and loaf of bread I also needed) Anywho, the racks were practically bare. BARE. Harrison perched upon a 6 inches too big, red mountain bike and tried convincing me it was perfect.

Don't be silly I told him. We're not going to buy this bike just because it's the only one here! We'll check Toys-R-Us! That's when the mom next to me in the bike aisle told me not to bother. "They don't have any bikes assembled and ready to buy. Just the ones in boxes" Since it was 4pm and daylight hours were limited, that just wasn't going to work.

So we went to the Target in the next town over. Nada. We went into BJs which shares a parking lot. Nope. I called Walmart on my cell phone, and they had nothing left after a frenzy of bike purchases on Saturday.

Harrison's chin quivered. He started blinking rapidly. He asked if we could go back to the original Target and buy the the first bike we had seen. The only bike we had seen.

Which is when I flew into damage-control mode. And explains how we came home with these instead. Even more exciting when you consider that we are due for rain Monday and Tuesday and you can't ride your bike in the rain, but you can shoot up your brothers, inside, until bedtime!

And who wouldn't be a sucker for this face?
Graham has been eating his meals in the baby swing since we threw away our highchair when we moved. Not exactly convenient or very clean. I finally ran over to Babies R Us last week armed with my 20% off coupon - good on any one item. One item = highchair.

Clearly.
At least someone ended up with new wheels!