Dave has been working insane hours recently, which means the girls and I have been given the gift of A LOT of time together. Hanging with the girls is a good time and all, but at some point I actually have to run some errands. I'm fine grocery shopping with them, they are actually pretty well behaved there (and, I'm pretty efficient now, thanks to my list app on my phone). But, there are just some errands that I would like to do without ever having to sing the ABC's, spell "hungry," or tell anyone to take their hands out of their pants (which, coincidentally, is why I also don't like to shop with Dave). Anyhow, this is the 4th weekend where Dave has worked during all business hours, so I realized that I was just going to have to suck it up and take them out.
Saturday - goal: buy new blue jeans and a bathing suit
I set out for the Dulles Town Center and I thought I had a secret weapon in hand, I told Paige that we'd go on the train that rides around the mall, but ONLY IF they were well behaved while I shopped for the perfect pair of blue jeans. Knowing I had little time, and that I would eventually end up there, I started at Old Navy. I grabbed a bunch of jeans, hit the dressing room, and things were going well. As I was admiring myself in the mirror though, I looked down and saw Paige spitting a big loogie on the bench in the dressing room. She saw my look of horror and, I think, thought it would make the situation better if she "cleaned up" her mess...by LICKING it off the bench. I never even looked for a bathing suit...
Sunday - goal: go to Costco, Kohls, Dollar Store, and Best Buy
Stop 1: Costco - This one was the easy one. The girls both love Costco and we go there as often as we do the grocery store, so they were both well behaved. Only hiccup is that Rylie really doesn't want to sit in the infant seat anymore (this is the case for all shopping carts, she wants to sit in the big basket part), where-as Paige wants nothing more than to be considered a baby and insists on sitting there. So we look somewhat absurd with the baby in the big part and the big girl in the baby seat, but whatever. We walked around, I covered snack time with samples, and we grabbed what we needed and left. No issues.
Stop 2: Kohls - This was our shortest stop, because we didn't get to actually shop. Paige went into hysterics because Kohls has those dumb carts that only have one baby seat that faces out and she couldn't ride. So I left. Failed attempt #2 at getting a bathing suit.
Stop 3: Dollar Tree - I needed to get prizes for my prize bin at school. I knew this would be difficult to do with the girls because they usually want me to get them every single item in the dollar store. Today was no different. I think I had to say, "no, put that away," 472 times in the 10 minutes we were in the store.
Stop 4: Best Buy - I needed a specific charging cord, and I had no idea where to find it, so I bee-lined it to the first employee to see if he could point me in the right direction. He looked at me, at Paige, then at Rylie and was like, "Why don't you just hang out here and I'll run around and look for the cord, that'll be easier." I was all, "yes, yes that will be much easier." So we were just standing in this one area and there was music playing, and the girls love to dance, so they started to bust a move. I believe the song was, "we didn't start the fire." Paige was so into the music that she danced right out of her pants; as in, they fell down to her ankles. Of course this happened right as the employee returned, and to say he was mortified would be an understatement (3 year olds in their underwear must be a new thing for Best Buy).
While I already do 90% of my shopping on Amazon as it is, I think I'm going to have to increase that percentage. No more shopping with the girls.
