The Truth About the 3 Musketeer Birthday Gun...

My nephew Weston turns 5 this week, and he has been asking for a very specific thing for his birthday since the day after Christmas: a 3 Musketeer Gun. We had no idea what that could possibly be, where we could get it, or how much it would cost. Since his mommy and daddy had different birthday present plans already picked out for him, it was up to the aunties to solve the case of the famous mystery gun. As time grew nearer, I began to get more and more worried about the chances of even finding the gun... not to mention how much it would cost. We kept asking Wes for alternative birthday choices, but got the same answer every time. "Well, I really just want a 3 Musketeer gun."
By this time I am convinced that this super awesome gun MUST be the most difficult to find, most expensive item on the Nerf toy isle. I roped Kristy into the birthday buying plan in case the cost was too much for one poor girl to handle, the two of us plus one very excited little birthday boy piled into the car and headed to Walmart, hoping against hope that our trip would prove successful.
When we got to the store and turned the corner down the Nerf isle, Weston yells, "That's it!!!"
Really?? That's it? A standard, two barrel toy shotgun with a whopping $9.99 price tag?? Wow, that was not exactly what I was expecting. I even asked Weston to walk up and down the entire isle to make sure that was the right one, but he insisted that the search stopped there- he had found his treasure. We headed to the cash register with a gun, a box of refill bullets, and a turkey lunchable in our basket, and the aunties left the store less than $18 worse off.

I may never know why that particular gun was so cool, or where Wes had even heard of the the 3 Musketeers for that matter, but I learned a valuable lesson that day. I learned to always trust that little guy's imagination, and the Truth is... you apparently can't put a price tag on "way cool-ness."