Sunday, February 22, 2009

Zander's Awesome Discovery

Zander and Nolan had a bit of a falling out over Nerf guns and ammo. It seems that Zander tends to lose the ammo and Nolan owns the guns. One gun was totally out of little darts. Nolan threw the gun away. I didn't realize you could buy REPLACEMENT darts....oy vey. When I think of the Nerf guns we've thrown out. ::snort::

Zander hauled the gun out of the garbage and asked me if I thought I could buy more ammo. I did a quick Amazon search and whatdayaknow! ::grin::

Zander, Stacia and I headed to Walmart....Zander is well-known by several clerks at Walmart. He is such a sweetie...but that lack of impulse control means that he's missing a few filters...and so....he's remembered.

He picked out the ammo. He had his allowance.

He paid. Miss Ida handed him back $1.47 and a receipt. She said, "Thank you, Sir."

He smiled real big and yelled, "AWESOME! Mom, I gave her some money and she gave me a WHITE PIECE OF PAPER and more money back!" By this time Miss Ida and all the shoppers around were smiling.

He continued, "I need to buy MORE things in this store, and get more money!" ::snort::

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Back at home Zander tells Jared, "It's really COOL to buy things at Walmart!" Jared was less than overwhelmed at the awesomeness of his OWN receipt.

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hysterical! More and more, I think that Zander and my Daniel would be great friends!

Debbie said...

LOL, He is just so sweet! How can you not smile. And what a smart boy for thinking that you could actually buy new ammo...way to go Zander!

Jen's Whimsical Life said...

How sweet! If only we could get more money from spending money:)

Cynthia said...

Too cute.

Romany said...

Isn't it nice to have somewhere to record these sorts of childhood incidents!

Did you ever find any way of saving your blog?

Yvonne said...

Awwww...I think Grace and Zander would be great friends! LOL

Our clerks are delighted with Gracie because she wants to come around and "help," them bag. :snort:

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

"get more money from spending money" - Jen, you brought this into focus - isn't this just what our government is trying to do?

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Mel - I was praying for you last week - and yes, I think Daniel and Zander would like each other. LOL

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Debbie - I can't HELP smiling...

Dorothy - yes, this is the very reason for the blog - a record...and HOW am I going to back it up?????

all in the family said...

More Zanderisms....What a HOOT! But you have more than one of those. How funny....

Actually I love the innocence of a child.

Herding Grasshoppers said...

I'm cracking up about his delight in the WHITE PIECE OF PAPER!

Simple pleasures :0)

berrypatch said...

Love it! Makes me chuckle every time I read a "Zander-ism." ;-)

Linda said...

That's so funny! What's sad is some adults still have the "I need to buy this because I'm saving this much" mentality. Ummm, you think they'd grow out of that?

The HomeScholar said...

Nerf guns and ammo? I thought that was a college thing!! Seriously, at the dorm where my son lives, they have almost weekly "extreme nerf wars" that can sometimes spread across the whole campus. For Christmas, all Alex wanted was the extreme nerf sniper rifle - and then he had a specialist modify it to shoot farther! So tell your sons they will simply have to go to college in order to TRULY appreciate a fine nerf war! LOLOL!!
Blessings,
Lee

Wild Homeschool Family said...

Zander is so cute.

Tristan has managed to lose some of Colin's nerf ammo already (from things Colin got for his birthday just a couple weeks ago and Christmas). I thought we would have to buy the new ammo special order or something. Guess Tristan will be able to make his own trip to Walmart to buy a replacement set. This is good to know.