4th of July etc.

We had quite a busy holiday weekend.

( In which I nostalgically revisit the days when I used to post every little detail of our lives on livejournal ;) )

Yesterday, which was Monday, the July 4th holiday, Isaac suddenly developed a burning need to acquire the second book in the Captain Underpants series. I bought him the first book, I think last year on his birthday, but he has had nooooooooo interest in it whatsoever. Not even when a lot of his friends were tearing through the series. Not even when he devoured the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, which are at least somewhat similar. Nope, he refused to even touch Captain Underpants. But all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago he picked it up and read it. And as I said, yesterday he decided that he must have the second book. He wanted to go to the library and get it. I explained that the library was closed for the holiday. He pouted. Then he wanted to go to the bookstore and buy it. I let him look up the bookstore himself to see if it was open. Perhaps alarmingly ;) , he was able to use my computer to navigate to portersquarebooks.com all by himself, with no help from me. But he couldn't find the place where it said that they were closed on July 4th, so I found that for him, and he pouted some more.

So I said we could order the book on Amazon, and since I have Amazon Prime, it would arrive by Wednesday. He accepted that idea, so we went to Amazon and found that we could order books 2, 3, and 4 together for $80, or a boxed set of the first 5 books for $20. Even Isaac could see that the latter made more sense, so we ordered the boxed set.

To reiterate -- we placed the order on Monday, July 4th, the holiday. I didn't pay for expedited shipping; you get free 2-day shipping automatically with Amazon Prime. But the books arrived today -- the very next day!! Amazing.

And Isaac has already almost finished the second book in the series. Good thing we didn't order just that one! ;)

More to come...