The Great Similac Heist

Our loot of liquid gold spiritied away from the Twin Cities.

We have finally made the transition from breast milk to formula with Sammy now (sincere apologies to La Leche). At the hospital Sammy where was born they used Similac. We would "top off" Sammy with some Similac after he drank the breast milk. So for consistency sake, we feed him Similac now.

Sammy seemed to get gas from the powdered Similac, so we resorted to the pre-made formula...which can be troublesome in the middle of the night. Once we open up one of the 32 oz. bottles we have to refrigerate the unused portion. Sammy does not look kindly on delays for nighttime feeding. So we buy the small 4oz bottles to open during the night...to avoid wasting precious time warming refrigerated formula.

Therein lays the problem. To the best of our knowledge, no store in Rochester sells these valuable bottles. The closest Babies'R'us store is currently up in the Twin Cities. Our stock ran out and last night we had no pre-made small bottles...Sammy was displeased with the wait he had to endure for warm formula.

Luckily, Sammy's Aunt Annie makes runs to all the Babies'R'us in the Twin Cities and buys their entire stock for us. Today she made a humanitarian run down to Rochester with the boxes she had cleaned out of 3 Babies'R'us in the last day.

17 boxes of Similac: $240. Gas for the trip to Rochester: $9. Avoiding Sammy's wrath: priceless.