Spinning Our Wheels (or Why Did We Leave the House?)

The high point of today was hearing my name for the first time from Maddie...knowing she was really talking about me! "Mehmee" is her version of "grandmommy". That's fine! I'll take it.

So we had modest plans for today. We would go to Target and buy some fall/winter clothes for Maddie. And then go to Kohl's and look at the Christmas dresses. Because they are stocked!! I got to the house about 10:00. Erin had to nurse the baby, we had to change several diapers, Erin had to take a shower, nurse again, change another diaper, change clothes on two babies, finally walked out the door. We loaded up two in carseats. We backed out of the garage. Yeah!

We were feeling so successful and ready to be out shopping in this beautiful fall weather.Uh...never mind. Landon cried loudly before we even got out of the driveway. You see, he didn't finish his brunch earlier. And that boy doesn't cry that often...and he IS wasting away at almost 12 pounds and 5 weeks old with big ol' linebacker arms. So a nursing session took place in the car while Maddie had fun playing outside for a few minutes. Back in the car, off we went. Made it to Arby's and had a somewhat calm lunch. Baby slept and Maddie enjoyed a half of a chicken strip and a few fries dipped in ranch and backwashing in her cup of sweet tea. On to Target.

By the time we'd gotten the 19-month-old in the cart we'd heard the words "all done" at least 20 times. Within 10 minutes of looking at clothes Maddie had dresses on the floor and hoodies on her arm after we let he down to keep her quiet. Then the meltdown happened. Crying jag, whatever you want to call it. Back to the car we went and decided to drive to another area to shop and let her take a nap on the way. 25 minutes later we were sitting in another Target parking lot, child snoozing, baby grunting and ready to eat lunch. So another nursing session in the car. Maddie woke up during it and said "all done". While sitting in my lap waiting on the boy to finish she managed to hit all the buttons on the steering wheel, turn the windshield wipers on and the radio up. So FINALLY we manage to get into Target and this time we took the double stroller, hoping that would make things smoother and keep both babies happier.

We did the fastest shopping ever, even found some good stuff but by the end of the half hour we had both babies in our arms pushing an empty double stroller. HA! Babies 2, Adults 0! Final score. We went home in relief almost 4 hours after we left.
But we WILL try again next week. It can only get better. Right?

Such a sweet face!

Big boy at 5 weeks!