You Win Some, You Lose Some

Sometimes I totally rock a trip out by myself with both kiddos. I'm completely put together, the kids are behaved and people stop and compliment how cute and well behaved they are and I leave the store feeling great. Sometimes it goes less than stellar and I fall flat on my face into a mud puddle (figuratively but nothing would have surprised me today). Today I wanted to go pick up some seeds and starters for our garden because I'm wanting to plant tonight. I should have known not to attempt it based on the amount of crying, spit up and chocolate smears (yes chocolate, at 9am...) on my furniture this morning. I went anyways. 
I first went to Big R (a local farm kind of store, think Farm and Fleet, though that might be a local store too?) and between Wes screaming and Norah putting every herb starter she could find on the wagon that I thought she should pull around, I decided to abandon that plan and head to Walmart where I could use an actual cart and maybe it would go better. While in lawn and garden (outside) Norah was determined to open every seed packet (thankfully she was not successful), Wesley was still crying and Norah set off the Jeep's alarm which took me 2-3 minutes to shut off since we were a decent distance from it (no clue how she got it to go off from where we were). After I got it shut off and the crowd disappeared from the Jeep, seriously it was like they flocked to see why it was beeping, I proceeded to abandon that plan as well. 

If I had the inclination to have taken a picture of us
this morning it probably would have looked a little something like this...
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I'll be going back out alone tonight. You win some, you lose some I suppose. 
Oh, and I think the little mister is teething. 
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Mom Fail

Today I let Norah fall off the couch.

Well didn't intentionally let her, but it happened. It's the first time she's gotten hurt. She was laying on the couch next to me playing with a large stuffed Goofy (my parents brought it back with them on their recent trip to Disney World) and I got up to look at something in the fridge (well actually the lack there of something... we REALLY need a trip to the store) which is not far at all from our living room, it connects and is about 6 steps away. I got to the fridge and heard her fall :( I don't make it a habit of leaving her on the couch, usually I pick her up and take her with me if I'm leaving the room - even for just a second. For some reason I didn't though - probably because I had been trying to get her to go to sleep.

I cried longer than she did, she cried for about 10-15 seconds and was ready to play again. I think it actually just startled her and didn't really hurt her. I'm glad her first accident happened on my watch though and not my husband's. In all honesty I probably would have been upset at him for letting it happen, you know because how could anyone let my little baby girl get hurt?!?! It's true though, I know I would have been upset. It's a good thing he is a better person than me... he brought me home ice cream because he knew I was upset about it :)