Current mood: enlightened
Today was definately a learning experience for us all. Especially, Mama. I learned that graduating Mia to new things isn't always as fun as I think it will be. Haha
Today Adrian had some new tires put on his new car, and I felt bad for him that he had to wait 2hrs while they mounted them. So I offered to keep him company and I brought the Baby and myself down to the tire shop. He was hungry so we went to a near by restaurant to get a quick bite to eat. I wasn't planning on taking Mia to a restaurant but since her diaper bag was still pretty packed with goodies from our recent trip to Oxnard this past weekend, I didn't object to going. Especially since they always have good Mexican food at the place we choose to go.
I thought that since she has been acting like such a big girl lately, that I would graduate her from sitting in her car seat while we eat to sitting her in one of those baby high chairs the restaurants offer. I was all excited but Adrian kept suggesting we should leave her in her car seat since it would be easier to keep her entertained and we could eat our food pretty much undisturbed. But me, being the over zealous Mama I insisted we get a high chair, so we did. I was all proud of her when we strapped her in. I handed her a toy to play with out of her diaper bag and looked at the menu. It was so cute to have her sitting at the table with us, it was almost like she was a tiny little person as she sat there playing all grown up. I treated her to a couple of snackies which she fed herself and I thought everything would go great! WRONG!
Mia decided that it would be more fun to throw her toys and stuff on the ground. Once they hit the ground they were instantly contaminated and into the diaper bag they went. Soon I was running out of things to entertain her with since she kept throwing them on the floor. I soon resorted to lotion bottles, water bottles, diaper cream lotion bottle, wipee box, plastic containers, anything I could use from that diaper bag etc. haha you name it I tried it. She would play for a bit then toss it aside. But if she didn't have anything to play with she started squirming and trying to get out of her chair. Our food later came and she tried grabbing that. Then she started grabbed everything in sight, the menus, the straws, the chips, everything! I started getting tired of getting her away from things on the table, picking up things tossed on the ground, and trying to make her happy. Adrian kept going "see told you we should have kept her in the car seat!" I reluctantly agreed. We were fighting a losing battle and fast!
Finally it was snackies to the rescue! We started just feeding her tons of snackies because it would buy us some time to eat while she munched on them! Then the snackies ran out! Oh-no! So thats when she tasted her first couple of rice pieces. Then she started to get antsy and wanted to go so we had to pack up and leave. We usually sit and chat after a meal but the chatting was cut short due to Mia's insistance on leaving.
Well it was a nice little lunch but I sure did learn something. Graduating Mia to new things don't always go as smooth as planned. I think until she officially grows out of her car seat, we will keep her there when we go anywhere to eat in the future.
