Bobby's Shopping Haven

I have to preface this posting:  Bobby has never picked toys up off of a shelf in a store to buy.  In fact, the only thing that I can think of that Bobby ever really picked up off a shelf that he wanted to buy is potato chips when we go to Giant Eagle.  There may have been something that he showed us that he wanted from a store other than potato chips in the past, but I am coming up blank.

Now to today's story....
Yes, it's another rainy day in Bobby's World.  ENOUGH already!!  Rain rain go away, come again...in a couple of weeks!!  However, it is supposed to continue raining for days.  Bob took today off because we had been planning to take Bobby to Presque Isle, Lake Erie, PA to go "swimming at the beach!!"

As we were hanging out on the couch watching tv this morning, we knew that Bobby was bored!  So, we got in the car and headed off for a long drive to get Bobby out of the house.  We stopped at a WV landmark vacation stopping point.  Many of you will know just from this picture where we are....

For those of you who have no idea....we stopped at Cool Springs.  After all of the curvy mountain roads, we needed to get out and walk around.  We weren't outside too long because Bobby tried to pee into the creek and it started raining.

We didn't get to go look at the train or the donkeys....

We went inside to use the potty.  The best part of stopping on a rainy Friday is that there were only a couple of people inside the store/restaurant.  Most West Virginian's stop here on their way to their camping destinations and we have had trouble finding a place to park before.  Not today, we were parked right in front.

Funny thing, the other family that was in the store were from Bob's hometown and he knew them.  Bob went ahead and took Bobby to potty while I was looking around the store.  I saw a table of Melissa and Doug brand toys so when Bobby came back out I brought him over to look at the toys too.  Obviously I was paying more attention to the toys than to Bobby because he was looking at something on a shelf behind me and when I turned around he had taken the toy out of the package.  It was just a little plastic construction set with a matchbox size construction truck but more importantly it came with little plastic road signs.  I took it from him and put it back into the package so that I could pay for it, luckily it was only $2.99.  On our way back to where Daddy was looking, Bobby found a little toy (cup on a stick/ball toy) and he picked it up.  They have this toy on an episode of Oobi which has been on our DVR for a long time that he likes to watch at least once a week before bed.  Oh my goodness, I have to buy Bobby two toys!!

I left Bobby with Bob while I went over to pay.  There was no line since there was only one other family in the store and they were talking with Bob.  I decided to wait a couple of more minutes and I walked to the back of the store where Bobby was wearing a straw cowboy hat.  Yes Bobby, I'll add this to your purchase.  Back I went to checkout.  I am in mid-checkout when Bob yells to me, "wait!" Bob told Bobby, "take that to Mommy."  Bobby walks over to me with a wooden snake.  Ok, we will get this too.  Me to the cashier, "wait one more second."  I went to the sucker bin behind me and searched for a couple of blue Dum-Dum suckers since Bobby hasn't had any since Grandma's retirement party.

I just have to tell you that I was beaming with pride inside and so extremely happy!!!  I was like a normal mom at a souvenir shop.  I was buying a junk toys for my kid that he was picking out.  I remember picking out junk there when I was a little girl and we were going camping.  He has never picked out a toy in a store and now I have a bag full.  The main difference that I could think of while we were driving back...the toys were in cardboard boxes on tables, not nicely lined up on shelves like a typical store.  Bobby likes to junk shop!!!  Me to Bob:  "I know where we are coming to Santa shop!!"

Now this next picture is one of my favorite Bobby pictures of all time...

He's wearing his new hat, has his construction set in his lap, blue sucker in one hand and cup/ball toy in the other hand.  The only thing that didn't make it into the picture is the snake.

We sat in the car for a while because it started POURING...

Might as well eat some lunch.  I had packed some pepperoni rolls and a bag of chips.  Bobby likes to eat his chips out of a bowl and since I didn't have one, we had to make do....

What a multi-functional hat!!!

We finally left and since it was raining so hard we went back the way we came.  By the time we made it back to the top of the mountain, the rain stopped and we had a pleasant ride home.  That means, we should make another stop!!!  Instead of turning R in Grafton to head back to Morgantown, we went L and headed to Tygart Lake.

Apparently I got a couple of rain drops on my camera because all of my pictures have blurry spots in the middle.  We decided to walk on one of the trails...

Bobby decided that he would play LIMBO.

Hey, you're supposed to bend backwards, not forward!!!

Ahhhhh, melts this Mom's heart!!!

To the left boys, to the left!!!!  Yeah, anyone who know Bobby knows that it's not going to happen.  There is water down that path!!

Bobby doesn't care that we shouldn't be there, he wants water!!

Bob got him turned around and we started back up the hill...

When we got back into the car it started sprinkling.  However, by the time we were halfway home on Grafton Road it started down pouring.

Now, we have to figure out how to spend the rest of our rainy weekend.  All of my plans for summer fun require nice, sunshiny days!!!