little purple chair

funny story about that little chair:

while vacationing in utah at my brother's house over memorial weekend, i had to make a quick trip to the grocery store for a few things we were going to take on our picnic lunch that day. right there by the cash registers were stacks and stacks of these little chairs, just the perfect size for beth. they had probably 10 or 12 colors to choose from, and the best part? only $3.50. HAD to have one. even if we did have to lug it all the way back to colorado. so extremely satisfied with my purchase, and knowing that hank would totally love it as much as i did, i proudly carried the chair out to the car.

i opened up the door to my trunk to find THE EXACT SAME CHAIR already back there. for a second there i was totally confused. only to realize that hank had made his own trip to the store earlier in the day. i laughed out loud right there in the parking lot.

what are the chances? exact same chair! exact same color! there were lots of other girlie colors to choose from. and we chose the exact same one, on the same day, without even knowing it. well, i threw the chair i had bought in the car and smiled all the way back to the house, thoroughly amused.

"hank, will you go look in the back of the car please?"

"oh no... what?"

"just go look"

a few minutes later he comes back in the house....

"did you buy her that chair?"

"yep. i just barely bought it at kohlers. did you???"

"yeah, but i got mine when i went to smiths. well..... i guess beth gets two little chairs then."


and she did. we brought both of the them home. i mean, clearly it wasn't worth our time to take back a little plastic chair that cost $3.50. so she got two. because you never know when one of those will break- no, disapp-, get los-..... okay, so she has two just because. we both got a kick out of it.



some other fun pictures of her going down the twisty slide at the park. love the smile on her face and the tongue sticking out at the end. love it.