Apparently Randy and I lost our minds yesterday when we decided to go to the mall as a family. It was packed! Do that many people really leave their Valentine's Day presents for the last minute? Which reminds me, Randy yours won't be here until Tuesday. Should we celebrate then? Anyway, the trip started out pretty stressful but ended up being a huge victory for us!
We left for the mall with dry diapers and full bellies all around, but Mitchell and Callum were obviously freaked out by all of the stimulation. We got sympathetic looks while trading babies in and out of the stroller as they screamed. Then we discovered that Mitchell had a leaky diaper and that I am a poor diaper bag packer. We would have thrown in the towel right then, but Sophie was so psyched to go out to dinner. Plan B. Randy runs into Target for a new outfit for Mitchell while I nursed both boys in the car. Lucky for me, Randy parked right next to a spilled box of popcorn and the girls enjoyed watching the birds fight over it! After another round of full bellies and dry diapers we decided to try Romano's Macaroni Grill. We realized just a moment too late that we went to a romantic type restaurant on Valentine's weekend. The ten minute wait turned into 30 and, no kidding, our little buzzer thingy went off to tell as we had a table just as we were about to throw in the towel. Randy and I remembered the rule of "don't order anything you need two hands to eat" and actually ended up having an enjoyable meal, though I don't recommend the lobster ravioli. I was so proud of how well behaved all the kids were, especially the girls. Romano's is genius for letting the kids draw on the table cloth too!
And to top the whole story off, here's a list of things we over heard yesterday:
"whistle THAT's a lot of kids!"
"one...two...three...four! Four kids!"
"Is that three in diapers? How old do you think that one is?"
"Are they twins? That one looks older."
and my favorite, someone actually came to our table and said "I'm impressed you guys even leave the house!"
You may have five times the nosie but you will also have five times the laughter and love as those families will.
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