After we left from feeding the fish during our Mother’s Day adventure, I spotted a new store, The Lollipop Shop. I immediately turned my car into their parking lot which elicited a very happy yelp from the passenger in the backseat.

The first thing inside the store is a giant wall of every type of Jelly Bean you can imagine. I told MacKenzie that she could select one thing in the store, and while the brightly colored candy was tempting, she ultimately chose to resist.

As we wandered through the store, MacKenzie spotted a toy cell phone that contained candy on the inside and made actual beeping noises when you pressed the keys. She decided she wanted it so she could call me whenever she wanted.

But then, as we started to make our way to the register, she spotted a candy ice cream cone with pink candy ice cream. And thus, The Great Candy Deliberations of ’09 began. Would it be the cell phone? Or the ice cream? The cell phone, definitely. No, wait, the ice cream cone.

And then, suddenly, we had a winner — and a demonstration from wee one of what I supposedly look like when I’m talking on my cell phone to my “boyfriend” (MacKenzie thinks I have a boyfriend I’m not telling her about since I won’t marry her dad). You can’t really see it in this picture, but she’s definitely got her hand on her hip, head thrown to the side.

This post is really just for Imaginary Boyfriend, so he can see what I look like when I’m talking to him on my candy cell phone each night. We just talk for hours, y’all.

And sometimes he even texts me sweet nothings, too, but don’t tell him I told you.