Dollar Store Treasure

The other day Kimmie wanted to go shopping at the mall. It's always either the mall or Target. I didn't really want to take her to the mall, so I suggested Joann's. Her answer was, "No, no, no!" I then suggested the dollar store. (There happens to be one in the same plaza as a Ben Franklin.) She was really excited about going to the dollar store.

We went in and wandered around for a couple minutes looking for the toy aisles. When she spotted the aisle with books and coloring books, she was off at a run. She dove right into the section of coloring books and dug through them. She popped out with a Pooh Bear activity book. She worked her way through that aisle and we headed around the end to go up the toy aisle. On the end rack were more coloring books. Kimmie started flipping through them. She pulled out a Disney one with Hercules on the front and a small picture of Aladdin. She was happy. It went in the cart.

We wandered through the toys and didn't find anything. As we were going around the end rack on our way to the check-out, Kimmie started rummaging through the coloring books again. I was telling her that she already looked through those and had one in the cart, when she pulled out one with a big picture of Aladdin on the front! Hercules went back in the box and Aladdin went in the cart!

As you may know, the items Kimmie wanted to shop for at Disney World were Aladdin playing cards and an Aladdin coloring book. Well, we took care of the playing cards when we special ordered some, but the coloring book we gave up on.

Who would have thought we'd find a Disney Aladdin coloring book at our local dollar store!

Kimmie has a new treasure.

--Mom