Bless Your Heart

Yesterday I took my nephews for a few hours while my sister & BIL moved some stuff into their new house. We went to the dollar store and I let the boys pick out a prize. While I was there I bought a bunch of cards for the HoHoHo project. I mean, you can’t beat a whole box of cards for just $1!
After the dollar store (where the boys picked glow in the dark magic wands) we went to the farmers’ market where I bought 2 ginormous mums. The farmers’ market man (I guess the farmer?) was super nice and gave us all a free apple each. I swung back by the house and dropped off the flowers before we headed out to lunch.
We tried this Mexican joint I’d never been to before. The boys are Gluten sensitive so we can’t eat just anywhere, and luckily Mexican is more corn based. Jake kept asking where was the play area? I told him we were at a grown up restaurant. The boys were really good. Then something amazing happened. Two police officers came in for lunch and sat at the next table. You would think Superman himself had just walked in. Jake and Joey were so star struck!
Jake burst into a string of questions. Where’s his gun? Where are the bad guys? What’s that thing on his belt? I promised the boys if they finished their lunches we could go talk to the policemen. That really got them eating.
So we walked over and I introduced ourselves to the policemen. Jake & Joey’s jaws dropped to the floor and they just stared. I tried to encourage them to ask their questions. Blank stare. So cute. The coppers were really nice and talked with the boys and showed them their equipment. They even let me take a picture with them.
When the cops left Joey ran to the window to watch them get into the squad car. Jake followed their every move then sighed and said “There they go.” It was so sweet!

After lunch we went to the grocery store and the boys had so much fun riding in the race car buggy. We swung by the house for a minute for me to unload the groceries then I took the boys home. I had them from 10-2:30 and I hardly got a thing done! Everything takes so much longer with kids! And Lord help me if I tried to help Joey up in his carseat. He’d have to get all the way out of the truck and start over. Oy. But they were so good and so much fun so I certainly didn’t mind!  While driving around they would point their wands at me and magically make me do animal sounds when they said the magic words “dabra adabra!”.   Close enough.  ;)