Merrick's Very Busy Day

Yesterday was Sophia's Birthday, and rest assured she was treated like a queen, but it also turned out to be a very "busy" day for Merrick.
The weather here has been very rainy and although we were planning on going to an amusement park for Sophia's Birthday, we ended up going to the Children's Museum and on our way home we hit the mall. Sophia and Lisa wondered off to do some girl shopping and Merrick and I were going to head to Scheels. We didn't make it far when Merrick had to go to the bathroom. As we are coming out of the bathroom and heading down the long hallway back towards the mall a college-aged girl and her boyfriend are coming toward us. Merrick is wondering like a drunk in the dark as a three-year old will do. The older guy is trying to get out of Merrick's way, but when Merrick looks up and sees him there, Merrick just doubles up both fists and punches the guy in his nuts--yep two fists two testicles. I apologized to the guy, the girl was still covering her mouth in laughter and in true midwestern spirit the guy apologized back to me. Once in Scheels we headed to the bike section and there is a sweet tricycle, low rider style and it fits Merrick really well. Actually he can really motor on the thing. In his napless, birthday sugar induced mindset he takes off down the aisles leaves the bike department and drives over the putting green in the golf department before I can grab hold of him and the bike and get him headed back toward the bike department. Still on the bike he tears around the corner only to find a lady in the aisle--he politely hollers "Passing on your left" and shoots right by her. She was wearing a fancy bike jacket so she to understood the rules of the 'trail." But the best was yet to come after a supper at Sophia's favorite restaurant we loaded up the truck and headed out to the drive in. The kids were playing at the park under the big screen waiting for the sun to set. Merrick walked over the to the "Play at your Own Risk" sign dropped his pants to the ankles and pissed on the sign. Yep, apparently he is an antiestablishmentarianist to the core. I thought Lisa and I were in the clear because we were in the back of the truck--nobody knew who's kid was peeing in front of everyone. Sophia however wanted to make sure we knew what was going on making a bee line to us in all of her pink clothing and looking like a flare coming towards the truck. Merrick realized he was going to be ratted out wanted to get to the truck and start his defense campaign, so he started to pull up his pants on the run. So he starts chasing the pink flare over the grass berm, gravel, grass berm, gravel never really getting his pants up and never really slowing down as they both came right to the truck allowing everyone to know just who was in charge of these kids. The big puddle in the back ground, obviously there was another story there too--but really do you need to know more?