fun with a shopping cart

While we were in Virginia, we did all kinds of special activities. We had some fun outside, the boys rode their mini green Kawasaki, and they took some more rides on the rollercoaster. (Remember these posts?)

Oh, and Parker and Poppa Fred put together the toy shopping cart that C really enjoyed at a cool new bookstore Grandma Paige found.

One of the stipulations was that after the cart was together, P had to wait until we got home to play with it. He did, after modeling how it was used with Dragon Number One in the front of the cart.

Both of the boys have really enjoyed "shopping." They are learning to share the cart, too, and they push it all over the house and fill it with toys, play food from the kitchen, and stuffed animals. P wanted to put C in the front of the cart and push him, just like "at the store," so we had to explain why that wouldn't work.

And why, you ask, couldn't the boys use the shopping cart indoors at their grandparents' house? Here's a video of C "shopping." He may have, ahem, gently tapped a few things with the cart as he rolled it around. If you listen closely to the background noise in the video, you might hear P and I having a discussion about why he was placed in time out, and why we don't use a toy shopping cart to push our brother down or to run into him. Well, you probably won't hear that. Not at our house! But wouldn't it be kind of funny? I mean, if you did?

And if you had heard a conversation about improper shopping cart use in the video, then you'd be relieved to know that after just one evening of revoked shopping cart privileges, the cart seized to be a weapon of torture. Happy shopping!