Got it down

I must say I think I've got handling the girls down to a fine art. We have our little routine. On Thursday morning we went to Target. I had initially planned to have Camille in the front section and Beatrice in the basket portion of the cart but when we got there Camille had fallen asleep. So I wedged her carrier into the basket and stuck Bea in the front section. I was very surprised Bea was great. She normally wants to get out and 'hold me.' But this time she didn't. Maybe it was because I gave her things to hold?? I was able to wedge the rest of my groceries around sleeping Camille. She did wake up, when we were almost done shopping but she was chill. It was a pretty good outing and I'm getting more confident with going out with them by myself. Thursday after school I dragged them to Joann's Fabric store and they were perfect!

Yesterday we gave Ruggers a bath out in the back yard. Bea helped me while Millie was in her bouncy thingy. I got so ambitious that I decided to clean out Rug's gross water bowls... and there were several shiny black widows that came out and I hate spiders in general but I couldn't just let them live! So I ran and got my hiking boots on and dried to mash them. I hope it worked. I'm only slightly worried cause the grass was already wet so I don't know if they were pretending to be dead. The bug guy comes in a couple of weeks and I will definitely inform him of our black widows. But with the black widow scare it made me want to clean off the patio just to be safe. So I did that yesterday as well. After that we came inside the girls watched The Wizard of Oz while I worked on Millie's invitations and sketched out Beatrice's invitations. Beatrice wants to be Dorothy for Halloween and she loves The Wizard of Oz so I decided to throw her a Wizard of Oz themed 3rd birthday party. I've been consumed with that since Halloween stuff is out and I need to think of everything I might need for her party that I might not be able to get in December! We had a full morning and then we were able to relax at Gigi's and Granpy's for homemade lasagna! Yum!