I'm back!!

Well we are finally back to normal at our house with our second store open and doing well. Luckily I was able to find some great employees and cut back on my hours so the house is once again clean, laundry is done and the children are striving and growing way too big! We have filled our already busy schedule with preschool, playgroup and dance and swimming classes. There's been many adventures I wanted to blog about but there just wasn't enough time to get it all down so I'm going to recap some of the "fun" times for you in the next few weeks!

Dance Class

 

                                                           Emma's 1st Day of School

 

 

A few months ago at Target.....

 (The back story: Emma has an imaginary sister named Lila. She comes with us everywhere but according to Emma she does not live with us and she has a different mom!)

So as you know if you read my blog about shopping, I do not take my kids shopping with me. Unfortunately with the time restrictions of opening the new store I really had no choice but to drag them along with me one day on a major shopping trip to Target. I decide to take the giant shopping cart with the two red toddler seats in the front and a regular cart behind them. I let Emma sit in the seat and put Aiden in the cart. Of course, Lila came on the trip with us too.

So here we go, me pushing this giant cart, loading it up with garbage cans, Rubbermaid bins, paper towels, etc. (nothing small!). I fill the cart and under the cart, we could barely see poor Aiden. Then I need to start filling the areas around Emma in the front part. I put my 24 rolls of toilet paper on the empty seat next to Em and she freaks out!
Emma: "Mommy you're squishing Lila!"
Me: "Can't Lila hold the toilet paper for mommy?"
Emma: "No! Don't put things of top of her."
I'm not up for a fight in Target so I try to fill all of the other areas around the seat instead. So here I am carrying the 30lb cat litter while pushing this giant cart. Other shoppers think I'm crazy because there is obviously an empty seat right in front of me to put the litter down...oh well!

We pay and make our way back to the car. I put the kids in their seats and go to push the cart into the cart corral. I get back into the car and Emma says "Mommy! You left Lila in the cart!" Oh my goodness, really?! I get back out of the car and go back over to the cart corral. Pretend to take Lila out and get back into the car.
"Ok Lila's here now. Can we go?"
Emma: "No, you need to buckle her into her seat. She can't ride in the front it's not safe!"
So I pretend to move her to the back and buckle her in. We can finally leave Target!

What a trip....this is why I don't bring the kids shopping with me!

                                               Nothin like baby love at the end of the day