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[bumbershoot]

Good to know, disneymom!


Sherry, yep, it's the Lego store that gets to him in DTD! You can't really see into World of Disney, and while he loves the windows they don't make him want to run in. And he all of a sudden is against "girl things", and he considers stuffed animals to be for girls, so build a bear isn't something that interests him. I haven't asked him why his Mickey-as-Jedi and Mickey-as-pirate don't count as stuffed animals, b/c it's cute when he sleeps with them curled in his arms, but his definitions are kinda funny sometimes.

I'm also considering just making some sugar cookies before we leave and calling it good with Eamon, if the icing things starts to feel too crazy. But that means I have to get a snowman cookie cutter when I go to Cost Plus today!

I spend 20 minutes in an almost empty camera department yesterday, wandering up and down each side of each aisle, TWICE, without anyone asking me if I needed help finding something. Right in front of the Fry's employees I was even rooting through the boxes up on top of the aisles, and still nothing.

After I knew they had nothing that I could find, I stepped out of the department to wait for DS and DH to get back from the bathroom, and some guys from a totally different apartment started yelling at the camera people about "her", and pointing sort of towards me. I heard a camera person say "what about her?" and didn't hear the response, but I STILL didn't have anyone speak to me.


Oh, and I haven't yet figured out a way to stop E from the "I wants". Hubby was kind of annoyed by my extreme reaction to it yesterday, because he says it's normal and there's no real way to stop it, especially since we're not going to, as he put it, "beat it out of him" like my MIL and FIL did with hubby. A BIG problem is that hubby loooooves getting him things, if only a 99 cent HotWheels car, and it's become expected to get something at a store.

Since there are so many stores at DLR, that's a problem!!!!

He can get a souvenir, be holding it in his hand, and a couple minutes later start talking about how much he NEEDS something else. It's very annoying.

(and hubby is the same way)

We're bringing almost all of E's Disney-bought toys with us, so I can whip things out as he decides he "needs" more things.... That's the only thing I can think of, and it kind of worked on a previous trip, so maybe it will work this time too.

 

[Sherry E]

Poor Eamon, surrounded by all that tempting and colorful Disney stuff that just begs to be bought!

I had a grandma who used to try to make birthdays and holidays really nice for me and would get me all kinds of cool stuff, even when she couldn't afford it. Gifts for every holiday, including Easter baskets galore, tons of stocking stuffers and gifts under the tree, lots of birthday stuff, etc. It was great. Of course, as she got a little older and she didn't have the funds to do that kind of thing anymore, I couldn't understand why I couldn't have the newest Barbie house/car/boat. I would complain and whine and complain and whine until I got it. Fortunately, I didn't grow up to be that kind of person where I expect to be showered with things that I (don't) need by other people, but instead ended up over-compensating by being extra generous to people I know. Friends and boyfriends have been very lucky to know me over the years, as I have done lots of nice stuff for them!! (Of course, I can't do that sort of thing anymore, but I DID!) So I am always very grateful to get anything now - even one small but well thought-out gift that has meaning or purpose, or a card with a really heartfelt message is enough...but I remember the days when I was in my 'I want' stage all too well!!!! Heck, I still have to kind of slap myself on the wrist now and say, 'You can't get that. There is no logical reason to buy that and you can't afford it.' I had to do that in World of Disney in October. So I just ended up with a mug and a t-shirt, which is great progress for me - in the old, old days (circa 1993 or so), I would go to DLR and buy 7 watches in one trip for myself, as well as books, pins, snowglobes, magnets, mugs, whatever!