Shop-A-Holic

Jacob & I took the kids to the mall the other day. We knew, the moment we walked in the door, that our kids don't get out enough. Nathan's immediate reaction was a constant 10 minutes of "ooooh" "aaahhh" "wooooow". It was hysterical!!!!

He loves the mall! We were there for Jacob to find an interview suit (no, no interview yet... still praying for one!!!!). And while Jacob did his thing, Nathan and I took off throughout the store. He led. I followed, with Faith. I think he thought it was a giant playroom just for him! He ducked under signs, learned how to ride an escalator, discovered how to pull things off racks, and fell in love with the jewlery and fragrance counters! I don't think the employees loved him - or his face smudges - quite as much as he loved their glass displays :)

Here are some photos from our trip:

Wise boy - he went straight fo the 40% off counter!

And he's got pretty good taste, too!

Not to mention a super adorable face!

Well, the mall is not enough for a true shop-a-holic like Nathan. Grocery stores are pretty great too. Especially when they have mini "customer in training" carts! We had some time to kill and so even though I wasn't completely sure Nathan would get the hang of how to push and manuver the cart, I let him try. But he did awesome! And he thought it was the best thing ever!!! Plus, all the other shoppers thought he was the cutest ever, too ;-) Some random guy took a photo of him with his cell phone, too. Hmm...

It amazed me at how much he knew that I didn't realize he knew. He took the cart to the check-out and handed me items from it. Once they were bagged, he pointed to his cart as to say "put them back in here, please". He pushed his cart out to the front of the store and started to the car with it!! I had to be the mean momma and force him to leave the cart behind. He loved that cart! Now the only problem is... I rarely shop at that store... maybe I'll have to forget about getting $100 worth of groceries for 25 cents every now and again, and be willing to pay $10 for them instead, so he can push the mini-cart ;-) hehe

Checking out the deals...

All he's missing are some coupons!
Maybe I'll teach him that next month ;-)