Off To the Mall

It happens so rarely that Easton will ever mutter the words, "Can we go to the mall?"  He is my child that just really loathes going shopping.....unless it's for him and it's for something specifically that he wants.  Last night the "something that he specifically wants" was a new pair of sneakers and Sunday suit.  He had asked all week and I told him we could head out after my piano lessons at 5:00 on Friday.  Stephen joined us as we ventured to the mall.  We were on the hunt for a "cool" blue suit, brown Sunday shoes, and Nikes.

Guess what we came home from the mall with?  NOTHING!  It was a big fat shopping failure of an evening.  We hunted and hunted.  Easton is in that strange shoe size, the one that simply doesn't exist.  He's at that interesting time of life where his foot size is caught between being a kid or being an adult and it just can't decide which it wants to be.   Oh, and that size does not exist.  It just isn't carried anywhere!  We needed a 6.5, 7, or 7.5 depending on the shoe and it was never available in stores.  The nice little shoe man would say they don't get very many of that size in stock.  WHAT?!  I remember the having same problem when Dallin and Landon's feet were that size.  What a challenge it was to find cool shoes that would fit.  How can it be that they just don't carry that size?  Are these young adolescents supposed to just magically never happen to be a size 7?  I don't get it.

So Easton and Stephen bonded while looking at the laptop late into the evening doing Internet shopping for Nikes.  Such a guy thing.  I went to bed....

And this is Stephen walking in front of us across the expanse of the parking lot.  We needed to go the covered parking on the top on the corner.  It was windy and cold and the store closest to our parking area was closed and locked down for the evening.  Somebody (Stephen) kept getting distracted while walking through the mall at the lovely window displays and the mall closed on us!  What a great night with my guys!