Adventures of Little Man, Peanut and Sweet Pea: Lessons Learned

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned While Taking 2 Kids Grocery Shopping for the First Time:

1. When the nice man at the register asks if you need help to the car, swallow your pride and say yes. There is no shame in asking for help especially if you picked the wrong cart (see lesson 2).

2. Do not use the video cart! Even though the idea of a video cart seems like the best way to entertain your 2 year old - DON'T DO IT. The video carts apparently lock up at the exit and so you have either carry both children and all your groceries in hand OR switch carts putting your infant and groceries in the new cart and carrying the 2 year old on your hip. NOT worth the video cart.

3. The proper order of loading groceries, Little Man and Peanut into the car is very important. The proper order is LITTLE MAN FIRST! Putting Little Man down and asking him to keep his hand on the car led to the scariest moment of the day/week/year.... as he (keeping his hand on the car as instructed) ran around and around the car out of my sight. He now says "hand on car, NO move, mama scared".

4. Do not go to the grocery store hungry if you plan on trying to lose the pregnancy weight! Betty Crocker is evil!

4 comments:

AnonymousApril 22, 2009 at 1:24 AM
Lol, great list! That Little Man is a smart little dude to figure out how to run around the car while not technically breaking any rules!
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Mama BearApril 22, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Yeah, he is a tricky little guy!! He knows it too. You have to think two steps ahead. At Christmas when we told him not to touch the tree with his hands he laid down and put his feet on the tree. So now we have to say do not touch the tree with any part of your body, you can only look with your eyes.
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Italian MomApril 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Where do you go that has video carts?

And #4 has been my downfall for a long long time :) preggo or not!
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Mama BearApril 22, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Safeway has video carts, but this was the first time I found one that worked. It was brilliant until I got through checkout!
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