Toys, Movies & Music!

After Elliot & Mai got out of the blankets/pillows area they moved on to the toys.

"Daddy?" Mai asked softly.

"Yes? What is it Mai?" Elliot asked.

"Where we going?" Mai asked softly looking around.

"I'm taking you to the toys." Elliot said watching Mai.

"Toys? I'm awwowed to have toys?" Mai asked softly.

"Yes. Don't you have any?" Elliot asked astonished.

"Jwust Mr. Bear." Mai said hugging Mr. Bear close.

"Oh I see. He's your best friend isn't he?" Elliot asked smiling softly.

"What's a bwest frewnd?" Mai asked confused.

"A best friend is two people who get along really well and tell them everything." Elliot explained.

"Oh. Are we bwest frewends?" Mai asked her daddy.

"If you want to be." Elliot said smiling softly.

"Otay. So Mr. Bear is my bwest frewnd too?" Mai asked softly.

"Yes, of course. Now for the others." Elliot said chuckling first then sighing.

"What's wong daddy? Did I do something wong? Am I in trwoble?" Mai asked scared that he was gonna punish her and Elliot saw it.

"Nothing is wrong, I was just thinking. You didn't do anything wrong. You're not in trouble, I promise. Ok?" Elliot said then asked looking at Mai.

"Otay. You prwomise?" Mai asked softly.

After she asked that Elliot gently stopped the cart and then gently picked Mai up and held her close.

"I promise." Elliot whispered as she laid her head on his shoulder.

"Otay." Mai said softly as Elliot put her back in the front of the cart.

About five minutes later they reached the toy department.

When they got to the toys Elliot had to get to the girl toys for Mai.

When they reached the end of the boy toys they made the next deal.

"Ok Mai, it's time for out next deal." Elliot said softly.

"Otay." Mai said softly.

"Ok, I will allow you to get fifteen toys/stuffed animals/dolls/balls. Ok?" Elliot asked.

"Otay." Mai said softly yawning while rubbing her eyes.

"Well here we go." Elliot said as he got ready to turn the corner.

Just as he was about to turn the corner someone called his name, and he recognized the voice.

"Hey Elliot!" The voice called again.

The voice that was calling his name was Zoey, Elliot's secret crush.

Sure enough when Elliot stopped the cart and turned around Zoey was walking towards him.

"Hey Zoey. What are you doing here?" Elliot asked as Zoey smiled.

"I'm here with my parents. How about you? What are you doing here? I thought I saw Wesley awhile ago. Did you bring Mai with you guys, or did you leave her with a babysitter?" Zoey asked question after question.

"That's nice. You probably did see Wesley. I'm here buying things for Mai considering she only has two pairs of clothes, shoes that don't fit and Mr. Bear and yes Mai is here; she's in the cart." Elliot said moving out of the way to and pointing to Mai.

"Oh I see. So how is she? Is she still afraid of people?" Zoey asked softly making Elliot sigh deeply, sadly.

"Yeah. She's ok. Sadly yes, she's afraid of people. So far she's not afraid of me, Wesley & her pediatrician." Elliot said softly looking at Mai who was about to fall out of the cart.

She would've fallen out and ended up hurting herself if Elliot hadn't caught her just in time.

"Mai, what are you doing?" Elliot asked worried and scared that his two and a half year old almost fell.

"I was jwust twying to get Mr. Bear. I accidwently dopped him. I was jwust twying to get him back myswelf like a big girl. I sowee daddy!" Mai said as she started crying.

"Oh Mai, it's ok, I promise. I was just worried and scared, ok? It's ok. Come on its ok, it's ok. Next time just tell me and I'll get him back for you. Ok? It's ok." Elliot said trying to comfort her while bouncing her up and down gently while also rubbing her back.

While Elliot was trying to calm Mai down Zoey got Mr. Bear from the floor and walked back to Elliot and Mai.

After a few minutes Mai finally calmed down and Zoey gave Mr. Bear back to Mai.

"Tank you." Mai sniffed as she calmed down.

"It's ok Mai." Zoey said as she slowly patting her head.

At first when Zoey tried to touch Mai she flinched, but let Zoey touch her when she knew she wasn't gonna hurt her.

"Elliot wasn't too surprised when Mai let Zoey pat her head. He figured out of all the girls Zoey would be the first one Mai would get used to.

After a few minutes Elliot put Mai back in the cart and they along with Zoey went into the toys so Mai could pick out the fifteen things she wants.

By the time they got out of the toys Mai had picked out six stuffed animals, three dolls, one big ball, three Mr. Bear and Friends puzzles for little kids and two Mr. Bear and Friends books.

The stuffed animals and dolls were Mr. Bear's friends…she wasn't able to get all of them, but she was happy with what she got.

What she didn't know though was that she was probably gonna get a lot of them for her birthday.

There next destination was the movies/music department.

When they got there they agreed that Mai could get five CDs and ten DVDs.

The CDs she, well Elliot picked out were just little kid songs.

Elliot picked them out because Mai couldn't read and she didn't know what to get.

The movies she picked out were the "Mr. Bear and Friends" box sets.

Originally there were fifteen "Mr. Bear and Friends" box sets, but she could only get ten of them, which made her very sad.

"Mai what's wrong?" Elliot asked worried at seeing her sad face.

"I want the other Mr. Bear boxes. Can we get em later?" Mai asked softly.

"Maybe. We'll see." Elliot said with a smile.

"Otay." Mai said sadly.

A few minutes later Mai started to get fussy and was starting to cry.

It was around 2:30 in the afternoon, nap time for Mai, but Elliot didn't really know that.

"Mai what's wrong?" Elliot asked stopping the cart.

"No!" Mai cried, and then just started crying.

Elliot didn't understand what was wrong with so he just picked her up and started rocking her.

After a few minutes Mai started calming down.

Elliot thought this was good and set her back in the cart, but as soon as he did Mai started crying again.

"Elliot, maybe you should put her in the back of the cart. She probably needs a nap." Zoey said as Elliot once again picked her up and started rocking her.

"Ok, I'll try, but if she doesn't I'm docking your pay." Elliot said jokingly.

"Ok. Gently lay her down on her blankets." Zoey said softly.

Elliot did as he was told and as soon as he laid her down she started to fall asleep with her thumb in her mouth holding Mr. Bear close.

"Wow you were right. How did you know that?" Elliot asked astonished.

"I used to baby-sit and I was the same way." Zoey said softly.

"Ok. Well we'd better be off. We need to get her clothes." Elliot said heading off in a direction.

"Right." Zoey said following him in one direction…

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