He doesn't, really

Crouching tiger, wet cat
After the (dubious) victory over the mouse, I got ready for the day and we popped ourselves on the bus to look at cars before my course starts and gets way too out of hand for me even to leave the house, let alone car shop. Ah, September and it's many joys. I got to see 2009s that must have just come off the truck as they still had their packaging on them. That was pretty funny. The other interesting factoid that I learned was that in August, car dealerships seem to be closed on Saturday. Funny, because I thought when the new cars came in would be a pretty busy time for them. But car dealers need their rest too, I guess.
So, the good part was no salesmen bothered us. The bad part was we couldn't ask questions or look on the inside of the vehicles.
The other bad part (for Myron) was that as we're taking the bus, I'm thinking - why are we car shopping when we can take this lovely bus?

When we were done our non-looking at cars, Myron took the bus home and James and I went on to the Cat Center. We moseyed around doing some treasure hunt that he made up himself, that involved multiple trips to the pet shop to see the kittens. (We are not getting a kitten, Myron is allergic, and I am very relieved by this fact. James is the only cat lover in the family.) Our real shopping was at Zellers. I could only find one pair of shoes that fit him (yes, in all of Zellers, everyone must have done their shoe shopping for the fall ahead of us!). I got him one that is one size up and if I don't find anything else, he can wear them in a pinch. (He needs a pair of indoor and a pair of outdoor for school). I got him underwear- size 8 starts at 52lbs. which is where he almost is and socks. I found the pop up writing paper that Karrie was telling me about to help him with his writing. (it has raised lines so you know when you've gone off) I couldn't find the big pencils or the markers for windows that she mentioned though:( James did get a pick of 'pipsqueak' markers and a pack of hockey cards. We had some lunch and headed home on the bus.

As the weather was nice, I mowed the lawn when we got back. I am still pretty surprised that the lawn is ALIVE as normally this time of year I don't have to mow. It's been a wet summer. Actually, I missed summer. Was there a summer?

I made homemade pizza and then sat down with James to play his buses game on the bus map. I thought- give him 10 minutes and he'll be bored and I can do something else. But the dude does not get bored with this game and eventually I popped him in the shower and sent him to bed with the Olympics. (incidentally, when he sees Chinese writing on signs now he says that it reads 'Beijing'. Funny dude.)