My Son is Addicted...

To Robek?s (for those of you that are not familiar, it is a juice place). It has been going on for quite some time now, his love for "the juice"...it's actually kind of funny. The boy knows what he wants, and he let's you know when he wants it. His first Robek's experience, he shared one with me...he was supposed to share with me. Honestly, I had only planned on letting him take a few sips and I was going to enjoy the rest by myself. Little did I know that the last time I passed my drink to him in the back seat would be the last time I was going to see my drink. He sucked it down so fast, it wore him out, because he feel asleep in the car and I was able to bring him into the house and lay him down to finish his nap, where he slept for an additional 1 1/2. This was a surprise and great for me at the same time, considering he stopped taking naps MONTHS before.


Our second visit to Robek's...same thing happened. Did I learn my lesson, NOPE? I thought the first time was a fluke. I passed him my drink for a few sips, he sucked it down again (probably even faster then the first time), fell asleep, and took a 1 1/2 nap. By our third trip, I learned my lesson, so he was going to get his OWN drink, so I could enjoy mine. The difference with the third trip...he now knows the location! I know this may not seem like a big deal, but did I mention he is not two yet? So we pull into a parking space and he says " Wobucks"... yes wobucks is his word for Robek's. Daddy and I look at each other, and we both say..."he did not just say Robek's" so I guess he wants to let us know we heard him correctly so he says it again. What in the world, why does he know the place by site that fast...I guess it does not take much for kids these days to pick up on what they like and where to find it.


Now that we have established that he LOVES Robek's we can not even drive by the place or he will have a dang near melt down. We were going quite a bit for a little while, so when I would drop my daughter off at school he would say "Wobucks" "I want Wobucks" The first time he said this after dropping my daughter off, I thought he was saying something else, but low and behold it was good ol' Robek's. We were not even going after we dropped my daughter to school; we would go after we picked her up from school so we could all go together as a family. Any how for a couple of weeks, he would immediately say after we dropped her off "I want Wobucks."


I mentioned that he knows the location of the Robek's we go to...a couple of weeks ago after a long strike off not going we decided to visit our favorite juice place. One of the ways we go we have to pass by it first before we can pull into the shopping center...my son sees Robek's and yells out "Wobucks...I want some....PEEZE....PEEEEZE" (his word for please)...apparently he has been deprived of his precious Robek's. We passed it, like I mentioned to pull into the shopping center, so he thought we were not going for a brief moment and almost had a complete melt down. After he realized that we were going to Robek's he clapped his hands in delight and got all gitty...gotta love my little man, he is too funny!


So now he is back on his Robek's, believe it or not it did slow down for a little bit, but it does not help that my daughter asks him if he wants to go, and then tells him maybe we can go on Friday...I want to ask her if she has some Friday Robek's money...the nerve.LOL He mentions Robek's at least a couple of times a week, poor baby, I don't know how we are going to break him from needing his fix. Yesterday, I had to run to Costco, and the Robek's we go to just so happens to be in the same shopping center...I'm sure you know where I am going with this...


So I go through what we call the back way to go into Costco, unfortunately the back way has easy viewing of Robek's from across the street. I was at the stop light, it turned green and I proceeded to drive down the street to get to Costco, my son realizes "the location" of where he is and where is beloved Robek's and yells out "Robek's" (he has the pronunciation down now) and he throws his arms up in the air as if he were on a roller coaster. It was the cutest thing, but we were not going to Robek's...as I kept driving, which it did not take him to realize, he puts his arms down and says "not Robek's...Robek's" and then he has this face of disappointment. Awwwww...I felt so bad, but we could not go I had to run my quick Costco errand and get back home, plus it was not in the budget for the day.


Needless to say, my son has a problem. I will admit I prefer him wanting Robek's over McDonalds or any of the fast food places (which I guess it helps that we do not really go to those places), but he still has a problem. He has it so bad that during his nightly routine of tossing and turning and throwing out random words, just last night he says "Robek's....strawberries..." Are you serious son? Are you really talking about Robek's before getting settled in for the night??? LOL Again...gotta love him...he is too funny!
What is your son or daughter's favorite treat?