Shopping Madness!

Boy, is Lily overtired today. As I type this, she is curled up in my lap, alternating between whining and trying to type. We had a terribly long day, but it was lots of fun!

It started with us going to meet Leslie and Sam and Lauren and Jack at a local mall in their kids play area. Make no mistake, this play area sounds all innocent, but in my opinion could be an extra level in Dante's*Inferno. Okay, okay, it wasn't THAT bad, but I do get a little overwhelmed trying to keep an eye on my crazy kid and keep a peripheral view out of my friend's kids. That place was pure madness, it seems every mommy in town was there with their wild beasts, er kids, I mean.

This is the best picture I got of Sam. He would see me whip out my camera and take off running! He loved to wander around and check out all the kids. See that look on his face? He's saying "Sorry, no photos or autographs today!"

See that big pile of boys? And do you notice the splotch of pink amidst them all? Yeah, that would be my kid. She loved tumbling around with them and they were having fun making the baby laugh :)

After a quick lunch, Leslie went home so Sam could catch his afternoon nap, while Lauren and I continued on and went shopping. Since winter stuff is now on clearance, we grabbed some stuff from the mall and headed to Old*Navy to see what their sales were. Lily did pretty well there, but when she saw Jack walking around, she decided she wanted to walk too! So, I let her out of her pink cage on wheels (stroller) for a bit.

Here are the two of them, commiserating on the floor together

Here's one which contains my favorite action scene. Lily and Jack playing with the security alarm. They actually made it beep several times and we originally thought that it was because of the pants Lily was wearing, which I'd bought at the same store last week. They even sat her on the "alarm deactivator thingy" to deactivate her pants. Then Jack went back to the alarm and showed us how babies really make it go off -- they find the one sensor and push on it!


After that, it was meltdown time and we headed home. Lily was ready for a nap and so was mommy!