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Eric created some soft toys for Alex to play with. "Here Alex, you can have a little rubber truck and boat to start with."

The twins nod about the fountain. "It will be pretty. There should be a path through the store like in a forest." Yuki says "Maybe a yellow brick road! We need grass and flowers along the road mommy."

Eric makes some shelves appear and starts to make stuffed toys to put on them. He makes a bus then shelves in the bus and starts to make angel bears for the first shelf. Aki says "Make some police bears and Robinhood bears, and..." Eric was busy with Aki naming types of bears to put on the bus. Eric says "Okay Aki, this bus is full of bears on this side. We need other animals and dolls too." Yuki helps name dolls and other animals...."Daddy we need elephants, tigers, ...." Soon the bus was full on both sides.

Eric was tired after filling up the bus so he sits down at the ice cream counter. "Let's have ice cream!"

The twins nodded "Yes mommy. We will let daddy rest." Eric smiles, "It looks like we did pretty good so far. We need Nate to decorate the walls still and to make more toys. But we can do those tomorrow too if you all want to go to town to the bookstore."

Lissa sits with Nate and Alex and gives Alex a taste of vanilla ice cream. Alex likes the ice cream. "Seems your brother is part neko Nate, he likes milk and cream too!"

Stephan says "Nate you need to come shopping. You need to pick out your music books and lesson tapes. And you need proper clothes and shoes for work and play. You can paint tomorrow."

Eric gives the twins $50 each "For your allowance but you need to be responsible with it!" The twins say "Yes daddy. Thank you." Then he gives Nate $100. "This is your wage for caring for the twins yesterday. I will speak with your father about your wage for working at the toy store later. Okay everyone lets go shopping!"

Eric smiles to Sonja "I think that would be fun. Our little girl should have everything she needs."

They all pile in the van again and go to town. The twins tell Nate on the way, "We don't know too much about music so we will just pick something that maybe will be fun. We never really listened to too much music yet."

They get to the bookstore and look at all of the books. It was hard to decide....
Yuki found some DVDs with lessons and a book to learn along. "Let's get this kind Aki." Aki looks and thinks it is a good idea. "Let's get some story books too for mommy to read to us."

Eric was talking to the store owner that was worried that the new store would be big competition but Eric explained that their store would be only handmade toys as to be different. He sees Sonja with her pile of stuff and goes to help her. "Wow you will be very busy reading. I got a book on wood craft toys."

The twins bought the lesson DVD and some beginner books. They bought the first Harry Potter book and the DVD. Yuki picked out a new doll house and Aki got a remote control car. They had money leftovers so they decided to save it.

Lissa tells Nate."Lets go next door and get you some clothes." Stephan went to put the stuff in the car.

Eric laughs at Sonja for being so excited about the baby. He helps Stephan load up the car with Sonja's books too and the kids books. The twins looked around at the clothes with Nate but they had lots of clothes from Sonja. Yuki liked a little hat with lace so she picked it up to buy because it went with one of her dresses. Aki didn't really want any clothes so he just followed Nate around since he was a boy and Yuki was in the girl's section.

Lissa says to Nate, "You keep your money and save it for something you want or need later. I will buy you clothes." She helped him pick out a few nice shirts, pants and a tie to wear at the shop when he was working or they dressed up. Then some different types of jackets, socks, underwear, pants, more causal shirts for at the house or playing, and a few pairs of shoes. She tried to stay to the sale racks since they were on a budget. Stephan picked out a shirt to wear at the store that was a blue oxford and a tie with winnie the pooh on it. "I think this would be fun to wear at the store. Here Nate I will get you one of the ties too so you can match dad."

Eric comes over to look at the ties and picks out one with a mickey mouse theme. "These are fun. I will get one too. Here Aki you can match your dad." He found one that matched for Aki to wear.

Stephan looks at the hoodie and then what he picked, "Hmm...I guess I didn't like ties when I was younger either. Okay you can wear the hoodie but you have to wear nice pants and shoes with it so you don't look like a gangster."

Aki looks at the shirt and tie then watches Nate as he picks up the hoodie. He wanted to be like Nate so he picks up a hoodie too and tries to decide....going to his mom he says "Mommy? Should I dress like daddy for the store or Nate is going to wear this hoodie and it is really cute too."

Eric follows Aki over to Sonja. "That is nice," he says as he sees the maternity wear. Though he thought she looked good in anything since she was so beautiful.