This morning we woke up bright and early, (well, some of us were brighter than others but we all woke up early) so we could go to all the garage sales in town. With $12 in birthday and verse money weighing down my wallet I was pumped and ready to go. After all, last time I’d found a Playmobil pirate ship and just maybe I’d find another one, or perhaps something even better! We got ready and loaded up into the van. Our first stop was a garage sale on the main street in town. I saw a few things that looked interesting but nothing that I just had to have or really wanted as Mom and Dad had told me before going in so we moved on. Mom went down the street and got doughnut holes for Katie and doughnuts for the rest of us in honor of the day. After that we were off following our map with all the pre-marked sales with those in the paper added on so we wouldn’t miss any. We went to quite a few different garage sales. I got out at most of them in the beginning. Mom was going kind of fast so I didn’t always get a good chance to look. After the first few garage sales we broke out the doughnuts. Katie was the first to hit the bag. She was quite impressed with the doughnut holes and was eating them faster than Dad was willing to hand them out. I continued to look as we went and noted that I still hadn’t bought anything even though Mom by this point had made several purchases. She was able to find another Tot Spot lawn chair so Katie and Emma will each have their own. (For those of you who may have missed the tee ball games along with the sideline games – Katie spent most of Robbie’s games trying to trick Emma off the chair and them climb on it before Emma could return.) Finally about three quarters of the way through the map of garage sales we stopped at one that had all kinds of Nerf guns. One of them in particular really caught my eye. I was asking Dad about it and he told me it was $15. This was, of course, more money than I had. As I was looking at it and getting ready to discuss with Dad whether he thought they might take less for it, the man told me he would sell it to me for $13. It was getting pretty tempting at this point but I still only had $12. I continued to check it out was really impressed. It had a removable tripod, all but four of the darts, and a belt that could hold enough darts that I would be able to wage quite the battle. Well, I decided to ask the man if he would take $12 for it. He said that he would if Mom and Dad said I could get it. Fortunately, they told me that I could if that was what I really wanted to spend all my money on. You can shoot it as is, or with batteries you can shoot it much faster. We tried it out and it works great. Now I just need to save up a little more to get batteries for it. I was able to spend most of the afternoon since we’ve gotten home shooting it and it is a lot of fun to shoot. Here are some pictures of me shooting it.
A Happy Customer
Reloading the Belt
In other news for the day Emma found a wooden doll cradle for her baby dolls. She was able to bargain and get a good deal on it too! Her afternoon was spent hauling all her baby doll things downstairs and taking care of them. She mixed them up cereal and fed them and put them down for naps. It was quite the long process. In between she had to fight of Katie who was trying to snatch up various baby dolls and items to help out. They finally came to a compromise and Emma let Katie brush the dolls hair while she handled everything else. Overall we had a really good time going to garage sales and were happy with what we found. Emma even finished the day having some money to spare.
Other than that our week has been pretty routine. We are still doing school and I’m learning more about playing the violin. I have been learning not only how to hold the bow and violin, but how to stand and am even beginning to work on playing on the open strings. I just need to work on making sure my bow goes straight. I got in quite a bit of practice the other day but finally wore out and had to stop. Hopefully I’ll learn how to play songs one of these days. Katie still manages to keep busy most days while we are doing school and usually stays out of trouble. She enjoys Mondays best because Dad is home to play with. She and he come up with all sorts of fun things to do. The other day she decided that since she can’t drive yet and that Dad and Mom won’t let her go anywhere by herself that she’d try another mode of transportation…
A Perfect Package
As you can see, she was quite proud of herself. However, I don’t think she’s going to fall within the flat rate. I like how the outfit shows off her nice round belly. She had quite the good time playing in this outfit and kept showing it off all evening. Who knows maybe she’s going to start a new fashion trend…
I guess that it all just goes to show that one man’s trash is usually a little person’s treasure…
