Isaac, the master shopper

After visiting their new preschool class-to-be, I took Noah and Isaac to Rollin' Oates.  They have mini shopping carts - perfect!  Isaac knew that Noah wouldn't know that it was our first time using them.  He made sure to be the one to tell Noah where the food goes.  I think he's pretending he's Dylan (the big brother).  Dylan will often tell Isaac the rules, then Isaac repeats them to me in a cute matter-of-fact serious way.  

shopping carts

Steven used to think "Why are kids who can walk always being carted around, why don't the parents let them walk?" Well, now we know. And we love all of the inventions for carting them around.

I'm so happy that I finnished the cart cover that I never finnished for Dylan. I'm not as worried about the germs it covers as I should be, but I do like that it's more padding for when I back away to take pictures.

Mother's Day shopping trip

Is there one right way to go shopping w/ two cute wiggly todlers?
I started w/ Dylan in the front, . . .
Then they switched, . . . then Dylan helped me push, . . . Then they BOTH sat in the front
We left after that, as you can imagine. We didn't get anything for any mom. Dylan got a big hamper so we can keep all of his balls in one location.

This isnt' a shopping picture below, but maybe I SHOULD have had the stroller in the car. Actually, I took this b/c I was laughing so hard. We have had lots of fires in Florida lately b/c of the lack of rain. I decided to go jogging then we would play in the park. I didn't check the weather b/c it was sunny. I loaded the stroller w/ cameras and toys. It started barely misty sprinkling when we left but I didn't think twice about our excursion. Well, soon it started POURING. You may be able to see that the stroller is shiny wet. Malia was splashing in the water that had filled her cup holder. I was happy for the rain, but why couldn't it rain in the middle of the night or when I'm at work?