CARS

Thank God Aiden doesn't know how to read just yet. For I am sure this post will really make him upset with me. All of us at one time or another had a favorite movie to watch, heck mine is still a Christmas Story. But honestly (ssssshhhhhhhh! don't tell Jennifer about this) that movie is getting rather old and boring. I really think someone in Hollywood needs to make a newer version of it. I won't go into detail on what I would do to make it more modern. Anyways, my son Aiden loves Cars, and everything Cars related. And I mean everything. He wakes up in the morning to watch Cars. His day will not go the right way if it doesn't start out with Cars. He has like 10 Lightning McQueen Cars. When he goes to bed at night he has to have his ightning car, or the bed bugs will definitely bite. He sleeps peacefully all night long with a death grip on his lightning McQueen car. He wakes up with his lightning McQueen car still in his hand. He takes baths with his Lightning McQueen. Eats, shops, and well you name it Lightning McQueen is locked in to his kung fu grip. This kid will stop the earth from turning if his lightning came up missing. It is rather cute and funny, but on the other hand if I have to watch Cars one more time I am going to go crazy. We went to Kmart today to buy some pool care products and a Lightning McQueen power wheel. Now I am not going to go into a great deal of the fiasco we went through to get it off of lay away but...... I will say this. I know why Kmart is going out of business! So we walk by the power wheels and unbeknown to us on an end cap there is the Lightning Mcqueen power wheel we wanted to get him. I didn't even see it, but Aiden sure did. This kid saw this from 50 feet away and started to scream lightning! Lightning! I was like oh great here it starts. So we go to lay away to pick up his surprise gift. The whole time he is screaming Lightning McQueen. So I decided to take Aiden for a walk to the front of Kmart to get another cart. Big mistake. I purposely detoured away from the toy section just to avoid his obsession (mainly because dad will give in and get it for him). So I take the safe route. You know the one that takes you right through the bedding and bathing stuff. Well what do you know there it is the Lightning McQueen shower curtain with the Lightning shower curtain hooks of lightning Mcqueen. I will admit they were pretty cute. Believe it or not I was able to presuade myself into telling my son No!

So we get the cart and make it back to mommy. Where she was anxiously waiting our arrival. So I manage to get the power wheel in the cart with out Aiden getting to mad at me. So as we tried to walk out of the store with his toy, Aiden is walking sideways down the isle with his arms rasied saying my ightning my ightning. I managed to make it to the car where I miraculously got him in the car with out having a complete fit. So I tried to put his power wheel in the back of the explorer, but it was way to big to fit in there. So I had to tie this thing down to the top off the car. Amazingly it made it home in one piece. Even better by the time we got home Aiden had forgotten all about the thing. So we put him down for a nap so mommy and daddy could put his car together. Now he hasn't seen it yet. In fact the plan is to give it to him first thing tomorrow morning. If I remember I will try to post some pics of him on it in the next day or two. Well hopefully he will be surprised to see it. That's all folks. Ka chow!

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Chasing Rainbows

In my younger years of life. My brothers and I would do these random things to get in trouble. Anywhere from fighting, throwing rocks at each other, to going for bike rides to places that were off limits to us boys. Well this one spring day it had rained for a little while in the morning and at the same time it was nice and sunny. So of course if you looked good enough in the sky you could make out a rainbow in the short distance. Why we did this to this day no one really knows. What mythical myth do rainbows come with. That's right a leprechaun with a pot of GOLD. The rumor or should I say tale is that if you were to catch the leprechaun he would take you to his pot of gold. Where you would live the life of riches forever. Well, we say this rainbow and like I had said it looked relatively close by. So we hopped on our huffy bikes and set off on a mission. To reach the end of the rainbow would mean our mother would rich, which meant she would be able to afford to buy us whatever toy we asked for.

So as we pedeled off on our bikes to the foot of this rainbow. We were all excited about what we may find. Collaborating a way to catch the leprechaun, so we can get his pot of gold. So we pedeled and we pedeled not really caring about the dangers we may run into or worse the blistering beating we will receive from those damn plastic spoons (you know the ones that replaced the wooden ones). So as we argued over who was going to get to actually catch the leprechaun, it had dawn on us that no matter how fast we are going the rainbow seems to be getting further and further away. Which also mean that the time in the day was ending faster than we had expected. Not being aware of how long we had been gone, I guess my mom staarted to get worried about us. I guess we should of otld her we were leaving. So just as we think we are at the base of the rainbow guess who show's up. Grandpa. I rememer him yelling at us when he saw us. He was like what in the hell you damn kids doing. He laughed at us and then told us we better beat him home. So, off we went. Of course we all had to argue which was the fastest way home. Whcih took more time.

So we get to our house to see that or mom's car wasn't there. So we immediately raced down the street to our grandma and grandpa's house, Just to see that our grandpa had beaten us home. The worst part was our mom was out front waiting for us with a wooden spoon in her hand. In fact as we got to the crest of the hill we could here our mom yelling for us down the street. Boy were we screwed. So as we pulled into the driveway, we all new the routine for we have been down this road several times before. So as we dismounted the bikes she was right on top of us like a vulture. Get you little ass's in the house now. So the first beating was dished out on Rob. As he was getting his well deserved beating me and Randall were talking to our grandma trying not to laugh at him. The whole time Rob was looking at us just smiling trying not to submit to the blistering pain the spoon was inflicting on his little butt. Then it was my turn. Oh please no mommy not me it was Rob's fault. Yeah I was squeeling like a pig before she could get her eagle like claws on my arms. Big mistake Christopher, she just whipped harder. With one hand covering my little butt, with my mom's death grip on the other arm. I was trying my hardest to run away from her. The whole time she was swinging that damn spoon at my ass like a samurai swinging his sword at his enemy. Connecting with some thunderous blows that could make a parapelegic get out of his wheel chair and run away. No mommy I am sorry, stop, stop it hurts.

While I am getting my well deserved whipping, my brothers are laughing rather loudly at my expense. Then it was Randall's turn. I won't go into detail, but it was obvious that my mother had already spent all of her anger and frustration out on me and Rob's little behinds. For his beating consisted of a few a decent swats and that was that. Lucky little turd. Really I am not sure which was worse the beating or the dragging or butt's on the floor trying to get rid of the pain. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.