What Were We Thinking?

Today, Hope Church, where Lilly goes to school, had a craft show with 60 vendors. Andy is out of town and I thought it would be fun to go with my friend Stephanie and her son Jordan. I have been to plenty of craft shows so I'm not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to take the kids! They were great but there wasn't much for them to do and we were unable to really enjoy looking at the merchandise. Lilly did love playing in the fire truck. They even let her drive.


It was a really nice craft show and the best part is that I saw one of Lilly's teachers and she went on and on about how much she loves Lilly and how Lilly reminds her of her own daughter. Up to this point I still haven't known what Lilly's like in class (3 hours) and only knew that I leave her upset and pick her up fairly happy. Ms. Susan told me Lilly is funny, spunky, adorable, loves to have fun and play, and completely melts her heart. I almost started crying again but held it together. I need to have this baby so I can get some of my composure back. I told her I still am on the fence about pulling her and she started crying and said, "You cannot pull her from this class. I'll be devasated! She's my favorite!" I thought this was really sweet of her and am glad Lilly has someone that cares so much about her when I am not there.

Here are Lilly and Jordan before we left the craft show.

I love this second picture. It's so cute - like they're a little old couple and like they're lost in thought.

For some crazy reason we decided to head to LL Bean with kids in tow. Stephanie wanted to look at winter coats for Jordan and I was along for the ride. In a nutshell Lilly hid under a clothing rack to poop while announcing what she was doing, I took her to the bathroom to change her and she freaked out because she has developed a serious fear of changing tables in bathrooms (she feels like she's going to fall and totally panics) so I changed her on a bench in the store, we lost Lilly briefly and found her on a bike pretending to ride, and finally I took Lilly and Jordan with me to check out and Jordan listened and stayed with me and Lilly roamed. When Stephanie came over I told her Lilly left me and she said (very casually), "Oh she's fine she's in the kayak." Meanwhile the kayak has a large sign on it that says, "Please do not touch or climb on kayak." It is raised about 3 feet off the ground on display and Lilly was in fact inside with the paddles pretending she was headed down rapids...

Needless to say we left... and headed to Friendly's! Two tired and hungry toddlers playing off one another at Friendly's. Jordan screamed Lilly copied him. Jordan drew with crayon on the window, Lilly scribbled all over the glass. Jordan went under the table, Lilly went under the table. I could go on and on. We quickly ate, got indigestion and headed home. Lilly protested her nap but was passed out in minutes.

Guess I should gear up for life with two...