mean parents

while the kids were away the dad and i went and picked up the rest of what thing 1 needed on his school supply list. he still needed ...
4 marble notebooks
4 folders
4 erasable pens
etc.
etc.
etc.
while at the store we came across all the i love troy notebooks and folders from HSM (that's high school musical, in case you're not with it!). i told the dad we should get these folders for thing 1, he-he-he. we both laughed at ourselves, at the reaction we both knew our son would have.
i couldn't resist. i picked up the cool folders and slid one extra folder, one with a big beautiful picture of troy on the front, into the cart. he-he-he, this would be fun!

when we picked him up i told him we had picked up his school supplies, he was excited. then i passed him back the folder and oh boy did his excitement change. he was upset. he threw it on the floor and proclaimed that he would not use it. the mean dad and i just laughed. we couldn't help it. the dad just kept teasing him saying, "i thought that was your favorite movie", and " it's troy, you love troy, he's cool!" finally i showed him the cool folders and told him "no, the folder was really for thing 2." thing 2 of course knew better but he couldn't understand why we would waste our money to play a trick. the next day he was still concerned, asking if i was going to take it back. i just told him we would find someone to give it to that liked troy. he was satisfied, we weren't completely wasteful.

i know we are mean, but that was fun.