I should tell you the before Target experience first...just so I can shine all three of my children, and myself, in a good light. Adelyn is SUPER possessive of certain things. She does a great job sharing with her friends but when it comes time to share with Brecken and Joelle...yeah. That's a joke. She has a stroller that she likes to put her babies in and load up with all of her favorite things. Her babies are the one thing that I like to keep "hers." If someone takes them we encourage that person to give them back. Everything else is fair game. Today Brecken took a little tupperware out of the stroller she wasn't even playing with and she started screaming at him and slapped him. So I told her I was going to burn her stroller in the fire pit. Probably not the appropriate thing to say and, once again, not a shining moment of motherhood. I tell you, I have to tell her to share that blasted stroller and the things in it 329 times a day. I had my last straw this morning. We went into my bedroom and had a very nice chat. In which I assured her that I wasn't going to burn her stroller and I was sorry I had said that. I also told her that the stroller was going back out and Brecken and Joelle could play with everything in it for the rest of the day and she is not to touch a thing in it for the rest of the day. She was upset about it but probably figured she shouldn't press her luck. While getting our shoes on Brecken got into her craft cabinet and started eating a glue stick. Healthy, I know. Maybe it will help food stick to his insides and he can gain a little weight to catch up to Joelle. I was already over there taking care of it when, what do you know, Adelyn starts screaming at him and telling him not to touch her glue stick. So then we had a conversation I yelled at her for that. I am really on a roll here, huh?!
I've been wanting to get Adelyn a "normal" car seat for a while. She was still in her convertible one and she was getting to tall for it. I LOVE the Graco Nautilus' that we have for Brecken and Joelle. What sealed the deal for me was when Joelle barfed all over her car seat the other day. You can actually take the straps out and wash them, instead of just wiping them down like a normal car seat. HALLELUJAH. B and J hadn't been anywhere in a week (we did go to friends one night, but that's it) so I thought they would do great. Boy was I wrong. I try to park next to a cart corral that has a giant Dugger size cart in it so I don't have to haul them in on foot. We found one but of course one seat was missing a strap. So I put Joelle in that one and made it work. The second we got in the store they were all our of sorts. We started by the clothes and navigating a bus through those aisles is always so much fun. I only knocked one part of a rack over. I start looking through the clearance stuff and I see Joelle escaping. I tell her to get back in and I harness her back up and she starts screaming. In the mean time Brecken was already screaming because Joelle had escaped and he was still buckled in. Probably because he was the one sufficiently harnessed. Joelle is pissed so she starts ripping clothes off the shelf and throwing them. I decided the kids didn't need any clothes and vacated that section. We head over to the car seats, B and J still screaming and blowing snot everywhere. I manage to find the one box they had, that we wanted. I had to verify with Adelyn that it was acceptable. B and J still screaming, trying to escape and blowing snot. Adelyn tells me "Let's go." I declined. If I am at a store you better believe I am getting what I need. We head over to sippy cups to try and find some more sippy cups for the sippy cup hater. I can barely get him to drink one cup of milk a day. There are plenty of days he doesn't even drink that. The straw cups I have, that they drink water out of, are softer and he eats the straws. So that's healthy. We picked some up and I texted Eric this picture.
We continue you on to coats and boots. Mister B still doesn't have a winter coat..or boots despite my checking many Mom2Mom sales, garage sales and online yard sales. Still screaming. Actually find a coat that doesn't cost me $60. No boots though.
Joelle trying to escape and Brecken still pissed off.
We finally make our way over to toys and everyone has calmed down. Probably about half an hour worth of crying, screaming, escaping and blowing snot everywhere. Yes, I was that lady with the sick kids in the store. But honestly, if they hadn't been crying there wouldn't have been so much snot. We manage to make it out of the store without another scene and get home.
I installed Adelyn's car seat and she loves it. We should be the next poster family for the Graco Nautilus since we now have three. But, hey, at least we won't ever have to buy a seat for Adelyn, Brecken or Joelle again.
And, yes, I am going to be the weird mom who has her child in a 5 point harness until her child is to tall for said 5 point harness, even though she is almost 4 and just 40lbs. Much safer, in my opinion. If we have another baby that child will be rear facing until 2. That's my car seat safety for today, folks.
2 good things came of our outing today::
1. Brecken and Joelle should be done with their colds since they got all their snot out at Target today.
2. Adelyn doesn't have a "baby" seat anymore.
This is a judge free zone. Keep negative comments to yourself.
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