This morning started out as a nice, relaxing Sunday to recooperate from our week and weekend, but it turned in to an adventure! We slept in and Julia finally decided to open a few more of her birthday presents this morning.
Today was the first time we have ever taken Julia to Toys R Us and not immediately put her in buggy and she had a ball. She kept going from one thing to the next taking it all in!
We planned to get her a tricycle, but once we got to Toys r Us we realized that the toddler ones were too little (her knees hit the handlebar) and the "big" ones were too big. Michael had wanted to get her a Power Wheel and when she saw them she had a fit so we decided that's what we would get her. I wanted to get a 2 seater since we will soon have 2 little girls, not to mention friends coming over, but Toy R Us didn't have very many. They had several reasonable priced one seaters, but the two seaters they did have were ridiculously priced so we decided to go check at Wal-Mart and Target first.
Checking out the cars at Toys R Us
So we left Toys R Us and went to Target (they didn't have any) and then Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart had a Disney Princess 4 wheeler and a John Deere Gator. I fully expected to walk out with the 4 wheeler, but Julia had a fit when she saw the tractor and when we asked her which one she liked better she said the tractor every time, so we told her we would get her the tractor. While we were standing there I told Michael I would check online to see if anyone had a better price on it (it was still more than we wanted to spend) and found out that Academy Sports had it on clearance since it was a special Christmas item for them. I called the Montgomery Academy and they said they had one in stock. We had made plans to go see Baby Stella so we decided we would go there first and then decide if we wanted to go to Montgomery today or not.
Julia loved Baby Stella and even wanted to hold her. She did get a little jealous when I was holding her, but luckily she was easily distracted. We'll see how easily distracted she is in September!
She thought Stella's bouncy was very entertaining!
After our visit with Jason & Megan we decided that we would go ahead and go to Montgomery, which meant we would miss family fishing night, the reason for our trip to Dothan in the first place! We got to Montgomery and found the gator. They only had one and it was the display, but that meant that Michael didn't have to put it together. They got it off the shelf and Julia hopped right in. When the guy was getting it down she kept saying "A tractor! A tractor! I so cited Mommy! A tractor!" I told Michael then that there was no way we could back out now, the girl had to have a tractor! The battery wasn't charged so she kept saying "Where the key" and looking for the key.
Unfortunately, they couldn't find the charger for it so that meant we couldn't buy it and it was the only one they had left! They called the Auburn Academy and said they had 3 in stock so, off to Auburn we went!
Proud of her new tractor
We got to Auburn, got the tractor and were on our way. Once we got to the car we quickly realized that the box wouldn't go in the car! Garrett's roommate, Harry, works at Academy and was working Sunday so we called Garrett and made arrangements for Harry to take the gator back to the trailer in his truck and Garrett was going to bring it home this weekend, unfortunately Harry was on break and we couldn't find him, so we did the only other thing we could think of. We took the gator out of the box and crammed it in the car!
Once we got the gator all settled in the car we went to meet Amanda and Garrett for dinner at Acupolco's before heading back to Enterprise. Julia fell asleep on the way to dinner holding onto her tractor tire!
We had a full car!
G & Julia
Julia & Amanda
We made it home about 8:00 and Julia went straight to bed. So much for our relaxing Saturday, but Julia has her very own tractor now!
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