Advanced Home Depot entertainment

Our house is old and sturdy and has many nice features, but also has outdated, out-molded, or just strange things about it that Dada is constantly laboring to sexy up. Thusly we tithe to Home Depot. We go there at least once every weekend, if not also Lowe's and Sears Hardware to boot.

Our visits to such stores almost always have this format: Dada needs to get some stuff and to get it wisely, perhaps with some cognitive workings involved that are not so conducive to having to look after running boys or the alternative, screaming boys who writhe violently to free themselves from the restraints of a shopping cart. So I take the boys and my cell phone and we go entertain ourselves around the store until Dada is done.

When we first bought our house and we were new to the Home Depot experience, the boy(s) were content to explore the lawn tractor collection. But as Dada's home improvement desires grew and festered into a cancerous sore, we were forced to find less obvious sources of Home Depot amusement. We have become such pros at this that Home Depot is now a baby wonderland to us. Among our favorite things:

*The kitchen display section. We climb in the cabinets that can support their weight, open the refrigerators, talk about the colors and textures.
*The appliance section. It's our "maze". Good for running races.
*We play Find That Forklift! Where is the obnoxious beeping coming from? Let's find out!
*The door section. You hide behind the door and say "Ding-dong." Why, whoever could it be?
*Looking at paint chips and picking our favorite colors.
*Admiring the fountains in the garden section, or gently touching and smelling the flowers.
*This new game we played at Lowe's last night. Baby Coneheads!




Conehead races!



Conehead jail!



For the most part -- can't you tell? -- Isaac only wants to wear Disney pajamas out in public. And for any grandmas out there thinking ahead for Christmas, he could use some more in his size (4).