…is the coolest.

Yesterday, I had to run some errands and since my sweet sister-in-law is what you might call unwieldily with child I thought I’d take one of the other two off her hands for a while.  So I got my stuff together and armed with raisins, a banana, a straw and my water bottle I trekked over and scooped up Knox.

I packed him into his booster seat in my car, which is a novelty for him because most of the time he rides in Honey’s van (my mom).  When we got to the mall he told me that he likes my car and that it’s a race car.  That surprised me not a bit since I can barely get it to accelerate in something like a moderate fashion but he’s decided he wants to be a rally car race driver so I think ever car is a race car.

Well, we walked all over that mall, which ended up being two stores, but still got what we needed to do done.  We went to bath and body works and smelled things.  We shopped for me a little bit and then sat down for a snack of bananas, raisins and water.  During this time, we spilled water, saw three people we knew and talked absolute nonsense as three year olds tend to do.  I answered about three million questions and saved the water bottle twice before it succeeded in falling off the chair rail.  As we were leaving the mall Knox looked up at me ansd asked, “Are we going somewhere so sit down?”  Oh, dear.  Small legs get tired so quickly.  But yes, we were headed to the car and one more stop and then home.  As we drove down the highway he snacked on cheerios and we listened to Bobby Darin splishing and splashing.

We went to AC Moore to get some yarn for two last minute gifts I still have to knit and Knox decided he wanted a scarf too.  So we spent about 10 minutes looking at all of the blue and green yarn there was there.  Finally settling on one we stood in line and Knox proceeded to ask the lady behind us all about the things she was buying.  Gracious as she was she answered all his questions and showed him everything she was holding.  I think she has kids too.

After that we headed home!  That little man was soooo tired when he got home he couldn’t even make a decision about what he wanted for lunch.  His mom said later that one of his friends came over to play and Knox said his legs were ok to run but not to walk. :D  After that he crashed a took a massive nap.  Score!  My plan succeeded!

Oh, I forgot to tell you the best part.  As I was putting him in the car at the mall he looked up at me and said,

“You’re the best Emmy in the whole world.”

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