Shopping with little tots by your side I must say has gotten a little bit easier since my first post about this very subject two years ago. Obviously, my kids are a tad bit older and are physically stronger with more bodily control. I don't worry about seeing flailing kids on the floor after being told, "No!". However, little funny things that my kids say in public never ceases to end at their ripe ages of 4, 5, and 8.
Two weeks ago, I took all my kids to the mall. Right before we were exiting the JC Penney store walking through the middle of an aisle near the Women's clothing area where many women were shopping, Tyler exclaims loudly, "Ewww...Daddy! Something stinks over here! I think someone farted!"
I smiled and kept walking (holding back my desire to laugh really loud) as I saw four women turn and smile in our direction. I made the mistake of ignoring Tyler's remark and then he yelled again and again much louder, "Someone farted, Daddy! Someone farted, Daddy! It stinks over here!"
I finally stopped walking at that moment, turned to him and said with a wide smile, "I heard you...you don't need to yell that out loud." Then I couldn't help but let my laughter out. The scene was sooooo funny and the looks on the women's faces were priceless. It was obvious that they thought Tyler was cute and what he said was funny. Once I burst out in laughter, some of the women around started laughing. Needless to say, Fartville is alive and well at the mall!
We just need a 5 year old to narrate it for us and exclaim loudly what is already in our thoughts as we walk through the stinky aisles. I've actually contemplated many times documenting all the the funny things my kids say and writing a book about it. After all, the laughter that they create is something I really enjoy and would love to share the stories with their own kids one day.
With Christmas Day looming around the corner, there's lots of shopping going on, and when you have your kids in tow for some of it, you can't help but look back at some of those moments you had with them in the store and laugh about it. The other day at the urgency of my kids to get specific Christmas decorations for the front yard, I took all of them with me to Wal-Mart to let them pick out what they wanted. Let me just say that when all is dark and quiet in your villa, you can reminisce in the joy of not having to take 3 little munchkins to WallyWorld to get the Christmas decorations they wanted...only to come home and put together the inflatable snow man and two trees that light up in your yard to find out you're missing parts for both...this after you heard non-stop requests at WallyWorld , in the van on the way home, and while your putting your decorations together. PHEW!!!! Now I can breathe!
Tullville definitely provides lots of funny moments and life here is certainly not dull. And yes, Santa had to go back to WallyWorld to replace both the snow man and the two trees that are nicely shining bright in my front yard at this moment. Now it's time to go shopping again, back to Fartville, and maybe this time...my son won't smell anything stinky!
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