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08/26/2005 Archived Entry: "now it feels like summer"

We decided to walk to the mall yesterday. Well, I walked, Miss Tabitha scooted. Man she loves that thing. She thanked me again yesterday for us giving it her for her birthday back in January. The scoother will be the thing she thinks of when asked her favorite childhood present on one of those silly email forwards when she's thirty. Anyway, it was a gazillion degrees but we had fun. We stopped at Jack-in-the-Box on the way to recharge with water first then soda. Then it was on to Toys R Us for an hour of browsing. Lots and lots of items jumped out at me to get the kids for Christmas. Finally we were en route to the mall where Chris met us after work. In fact, he beat us there. We rested for awhile and snacked on cookies and egg rolls. Then we hit Payless and were finally! able to get some shoes. I found a pair of tennies and a pair of casual Mary Jane-esque Ked-like shoes and Tabitha got a new pair of tennies as well. I would also like a pair of shoes that is strictly for my walking, but they'll wait until another time. There were some overly friendly kids at Payless. They didn't seem to be trying shoes on but they were determined to follow us in our quest to get Tabitha some shoes that fit. I had asked the cashier for the measuring thing and instead she measured Tabitha's foot herself. She said it was a size 3. That seemed beyond bizarre to me because Tabitha's current shoes are all 13 1/2. Anyway, we tried a 3, then a 2 1/2, then a 2, then a 1 1/2. She technically fit the 1, but we went with the 1 1/2 to give her a bit of growing room since she usually hits her growth spurt in the fall. I don't know what the lady was smoking when she told us 3. But back to the kids. They just followed us around even though they were totally crowding us and I kept moving Tabs to a different bench to try on shoes. One even asked Chris what religion we were. Nosy little suckers. Eventually we found our way out of Payless with lots of shoes in tow. Once home we had a quick dinner of baked potatoes and broccoli and then we all lounged in the back yard until it was time to start the bedtime going ons.