Today. Today was one of those days where you just sort of stare in to space for like 10 minutes without realizing you are doing this after the kids go down...It is that after an incredible workout feeling...even though there was no true exercise involved. I think it is really part fatigue maybe, part escape- perhaps... mostly just a brain break...
Let me take you to where it all begins. Payless. It is BOGO time at Payless right now. This is where I have decided that Molly's shoes are going to come from for a while because her feet appear to be growing at some mutant speed... she grew 2 shoe sizes in just a month...how does that happen? Anyways, yesterday we ventured to Payless to get shoes. In the children's defense...I did push it close to lunch and nap time... I digress...For those of you that don't know, shoes are in Molly's top 5 favorites along with dancing, meatballs, bows and Elmo. Taking this girl to a shoe store is just about her little heaven on earth. Instantly, we walk in and she starts laughing and dancing...it really is the cutest thing you have ever seen. This turns into running up to all the shoes saying. "oooh pretty.." -still adorable. Then we pick out shoes...Molly is SO EXCITED! We carry them to the register dancing the whole way! Hooray for new shoes. The shoes are ours... coming home with us... walking out the door... and then Molly spots them. THE PAIR OF SHOES. Light up Disney princess flip flops...flip flops with no backs on them that are totally inappropriate for a 20 month old because they would fall off all day long... of course, you really can't explain this to a 20 month old...especially my 20 month old. So as I am waving her new light up shoes in front of her and enticing her to leave the tears begin. This turns into a full fledged, on the ground kicking feet tantrum. At this point, Gabriel remembers that he is hungry and wakes up to join in Molly's tears. I look at the sales lady and she gives me this look of, "Thank God I am too cool to ever have children". So I am forced to Hercules style my children out of Payless thinking the whole time- "Thank God I went to the Ghetto Payless instead of the fancy super target one." Not so much fun...
So after telling this to my mom ,being the wonderful Nonnie she is, she goes out and purchases Molly some Crocs (well fake crocs but still...) I show them to Molly and it is love at first sight. This is the first pair of shoes that she can put on herself. Instantly her Crocs are her new favorite thing. So we wear them all morning time. Then at nap time, Molly decides that she is going to sleep in her crocs. There is nothing I can do to convince her to take them off. So there she is sound asleep, bottom launched in the air and her little pink Croc feet sticking out from her blanket-too bad I didn't get a picture. After nap, Molly and the crocs decide that they would like to play outside. So we head out back. After traveling around the yard to pick up rocks and put them in a cup, I turn around just in time to see her stuff "4 poison berries" in her mouth and eat them. Who would have thought that I would be talking to the poison control people about what kind of plant life I have in my back yard. So the rest of the evening was spent watching Molly waiting for the seizure and throwing up that "could happen in the next 3 hours..."
Needlesstosay, my night has called for a glass of wine and a bubble bath followed by a long 2 hour sleep between feedings. Fun times. How can someone this adorable and sweet be so crazy and busy ALL THE TIME!
Let me take you to where it all begins. Payless. It is BOGO time at Payless right now. This is where I have decided that Molly's shoes are going to come from for a while because her feet appear to be growing at some mutant speed... she grew 2 shoe sizes in just a month...how does that happen? Anyways, yesterday we ventured to Payless to get shoes. In the children's defense...I did push it close to lunch and nap time... I digress...For those of you that don't know, shoes are in Molly's top 5 favorites along with dancing, meatballs, bows and Elmo. Taking this girl to a shoe store is just about her little heaven on earth. Instantly, we walk in and she starts laughing and dancing...it really is the cutest thing you have ever seen. This turns into running up to all the shoes saying. "oooh pretty.." -still adorable. Then we pick out shoes...Molly is SO EXCITED! We carry them to the register dancing the whole way! Hooray for new shoes. The shoes are ours... coming home with us... walking out the door... and then Molly spots them. THE PAIR OF SHOES. Light up Disney princess flip flops...flip flops with no backs on them that are totally inappropriate for a 20 month old because they would fall off all day long... of course, you really can't explain this to a 20 month old...especially my 20 month old. So as I am waving her new light up shoes in front of her and enticing her to leave the tears begin. This turns into a full fledged, on the ground kicking feet tantrum. At this point, Gabriel remembers that he is hungry and wakes up to join in Molly's tears. I look at the sales lady and she gives me this look of, "Thank God I am too cool to ever have children". So I am forced to Hercules style my children out of Payless thinking the whole time- "Thank God I went to the Ghetto Payless instead of the fancy super target one." Not so much fun...
So after telling this to my mom ,being the wonderful Nonnie she is, she goes out and purchases Molly some Crocs (well fake crocs but still...) I show them to Molly and it is love at first sight. This is the first pair of shoes that she can put on herself. Instantly her Crocs are her new favorite thing. So we wear them all morning time. Then at nap time, Molly decides that she is going to sleep in her crocs. There is nothing I can do to convince her to take them off. So there she is sound asleep, bottom launched in the air and her little pink Croc feet sticking out from her blanket-too bad I didn't get a picture. After nap, Molly and the crocs decide that they would like to play outside. So we head out back. After traveling around the yard to pick up rocks and put them in a cup, I turn around just in time to see her stuff "4 poison berries" in her mouth and eat them. Who would have thought that I would be talking to the poison control people about what kind of plant life I have in my back yard. So the rest of the evening was spent watching Molly waiting for the seizure and throwing up that "could happen in the next 3 hours..."
Needlesstosay, my night has called for a glass of wine and a bubble bath followed by a long 2 hour sleep between feedings. Fun times. How can someone this adorable and sweet be so crazy and busy ALL THE TIME!
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You guys made me want to add music too. Love your blog!!!
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