Current mood: adventurous
Daddy had to go to San Diego extra early today so I decided to take Mia to the mall for some special Mama/daughter time. I also wanted to give her new car seat a spin before the weekend, incase we do decide to go to Oxnard.
I got her ready to go after breakfast with hopes of avoiding the mid-day heat. I had a coupon for Gymboree, given by one of her Great Aunties, that if you spend $50 you get $25 dollars off! I couldn't pass that up, plus it was going to expire this Sunday!
Luckily Daddy did fasten the car seat in my car last night before he left so it was all nice and secure for her. I put her in and she seemed to like it. I took a few pictures then off on our adventure we went. I kept looking behind me (she is sitting behind the passenger seat) and she looked like she was having fun looking out the window and kicking her feet. It was a whole new experience for her, since she has always faced the rear of the car her whole little life.. not much to see there other than the back seat. A few times she would make a noise and I would look back and she was give me the biggest smile! What a cutiepie!
Then we made it to the Temecula mall. It was definately heating up and my car thermistate read 89 degrees (it was 11am). I unloaded her stroller, diaper bag, changing pad, waters and eventually Mia. We had parked in their newly build parking structure so our car wouldn't heat up to badly like it would out in the street, however, it was going to be a longer walk to get to the mall. That was ok though, Mama could use the excerise and Mia the fresh air.
Once we got to the mall we walked around a bit. We checked out the Disney store first then went to Gymboree. It was a mad house of bratty kids screaming and running everywhere. I give tons of credit and respect to those who work there and have to tolerate that all day. Their selection was not that big, infact I think the Outlet Mall in Lake Elsinore had a bigger store, but I wasn't about to go there since its outdoors!!! and its supposed to climb to 100 again today. So we shopped and shopped. There is a huge watermelon theme going so I bought another cute top to match her watermelon outfit she got from her Great Auntie Gina for her birthday, some shorts, another pink top and some sandles that had a shell on them. Mia started to get alittle bored so it was time to go. We got to the register and of course there was a line of people, who always seemed to cause the cashier problems, in front of us. The first one had some exchange thing that was causing problems and took FOREVER, and the lady in front of us had some exchange AND an expired/used coupons that she insisted on using.. sigh... Mia and I just wanted to get out there. The lady in front of us had three boys all under the age of 10. They were screaming, rough housing, knocking things down and hitting each other. Of course the Mom didn't do anything about it other than say, "knock it off" 10 mins past and I was still in line about to pull my hair out. By then the boys already crashed into Mia's stroller once, and all their rough house-ness started aggraviting Mia too. She started to whine and cry in her stroller. I showed her a bracelette and as soon as I took it away she blew up! (Bad idea on my part) finally it was my turn and I paid for my things and got the heck out of there.
We then went to the food court so I could change her diaper in the restrooms nearby, I was hoping that would perk her up some. After that I couldn't resist a cool lemonaid from Hot Dog on a Stick (my FAVORITE corndog/lemonaid place) I bought one of each and sat down at a table. Mia got some Cheerios and I ate my corndog and lemonaid. I gave some lemonaid to Mia but she didn't like it. Then it was back to the car we went.
Once we left the AC mall the heat just hit us. It was 98 degrees and despite the heat Mia still insisted on having her warm blankey on her. We got back to the car and thats when things started to go wrong. We parked on a slope so the stroller kept wanting to roll into traffic, I kept envisioning Mia in the stroller, rolling out and getting hit by a car while I was fixing her car seat and putting things in the car. I tried to put the breaks on the stroller to keep it stationary but those darn things didn't want to work right and the stroller still kept wanting to roll back. I still felt that horrible feeling of having Mia roll into traffic so I just took her out and leaned the stoller on the car next to us. (Something I don't like doing since I would get really mad if someone did that to my car!) I went to put Mia into the car and I tripped on my sandles and almost fell. I grabbed my car door with my free hand to stop me from falling, it opened all the way and hit the car next to us! YIKES! The car next to us as a 350Z (not to fancy but still it was no VW bug! haha) I checked to see if the shiney, well maintained car, had any bumps or dings... nothing.. phew that was a close one. So I put Mia in the car and strapped her all in, gave her her blankey and then moved onto unloading the stroller. (Mind you its 100 degrees in the structure by then and I was pouring sweat and HOT!) I put my pretezel (yes I had to buy one of those too on the way out) in the front seat, walked around the car offered Mia another drink of lemonaid in which she refused, walked back around the car, put the lemonaid in the cup holder in the car, walk back around to the stroller, unloaded the diaper bag and Gymboree bag, I got Mia's water sipee out and gave it to her, turned around and started to collapse her stroller then I heard BANG!, Mia threw her sipee completely out of the car and onto the parking structure floor! UGH! so I picked that up threw it in the car, struggled with the stroller until I got it in the trunk, came back around and closed Mia's door then went around and got in the car... PHEW!!! I was drained, that heat is horrible! Finally we were off on our way back home.
About midway home I looked back to check on Mia and she knocked out. YAY! she can sleep in her new carseat (A concern for me since she doesn't sleep just anywhere) She slept the whole ride home. Once we got home I unloaded the car and got Mia's lunch together and that was that. After playing for a couple of hours I finally put her down for a afternoon nap so here I am.
Wow what a day, I am pooped! but there is still so much to do, I still need to pack and prepare for tomorrow.... to be honest I rather just go take a nap... I think I will... oh wait nevermind Mia just woke up.. off to do more Mama duties!
