Little Ms. Houdini

We had such a fun family day on Saturday!  Fun, and eventful.  Gabrielle took a nap in the morning and then we took off once she woke up.

-Ate burgers, fries, and hot dogs at Five Guys Burgers & Fries

-Went to Kohls to buy Nick new jeans.  Gabi has no walking etiquette and ran like a mad woman through the store.  She saw a little girl (maybe 5 yo) wearing a sparkly skirt and a shirt with bubble writing on it, and G proceeding to feel the girls clothes until I finally got her away.  Luckily the girl (and the mom) didn't mind.  Then Gabi took a header in Kohl's (1 of 3 for the day).  She runs and her big head gets ahead of her feet and she face-plants.  We left then.

-Went to the mall to get a phone case for my iPhone.  Gabrielle played in the playplace.

-Went to Foods For Living - health food store.  I thought it would be a bit like Trader Joe's, but it was way more "granola".  There weren't prices on anything and I didn't feel like looking around too much.  Gabbers was getting pretty tired at this point.

-Found another park in Mason and stopped to play for a bit.  There was a pond right next to the play area and G wanted swim real bad.  We didn't stay too long because Gab's diaper had had it and she needed (I determined) another nap. 

-Got home, gave Gabi a snack, and then put her down for a nap.  She tossed and turned a bit, but eventually feel asleep.

-She woke up and we headed back outside to walk around a play.  Nick had left about an hour before to go for a run (which usually doesn't last long) but he was still gone.  He had run to the park and played basketball with some guys down there, and we met up with him walking back.  When we were back in our driveway Gabrielle fell on her face again (2 of 3) and scraped her head on the cement a bit this time.  Now she has a red mark in the middle of her forehead from Kohl's and a black mark on the side of her forehead from the driveway.

-Everyone was doing ok and we decided to go up to Pizza Hut to grab a pizza for dinner.  We turned Gabrielle frontwards in her car seat a couple of weeks ago, so now we can glance back and see her while we're driving.  Once when we were talking to her on our drive up to dinner her chest buckle was undone on her car seat!  Nick strapped her in so I thought part of her sweatshirt got caught and it didn't clip all the way.  Nope - we watched as she repeatedly unbuckled herself from her car seat (after I would rebuckle her obviously).  She did this about six or seven times before we finally had to kind of yell at her to stop it.  She did, but she wasn't happy about it.  Poor thing.

-We made it to Pizza Hut in one piece.  We were sitting in a booth and Gabi was in a high chair in the isle.  The waitress was bringing us our pizza and more water, and as she set one of the glasses of water in the table another glass of water fell off of her tray onto Gabi's head.  A giant glass of ice water fell on top of my baby's head.  We were all dazed for a couple of seconds and then Gabi started crying, I grabbed her out of the high chair, and the waitress freaked out.  We were saying "it's ok, it's ok" but in my head all I was thinking is we have to get out of here - get out now.  Before these words actually came out of my mouth, Gabi was calming down slightly (though still drenched in ice water) and Nick said "Gabi, you want some pizza?"  She paused for a second and then nodded yes.  I guess we were staying!  I took her wet sweatshirt off so she was just chilling in a onesie and some wet hair, but she was ok.  That has always been one of my biggest fears is some dizzy waitress dropping something on my kid.  I'm just so thankful she wasn't hurt.  Later I told Nick I was ready to run out of the restaurant with Gabi right after the incident happened until he said something, and he said "I didn't know what to do either....asking Gabi if she wanted pizza just kind of seemed natural so I went with it".  Haha!

Hmmm....and then today Gabi figured out how to to unlock the baby locks on our cabinets.  Those didn't last long!  I'm sure glad we didn't spend the time to install all of those - the people who owned the house before us had kids (no surprise there) so the locks were all in when we got here.  Score!

Gabi got a hot dog, but she was a bit more interested in the bun

Until she grabbed the whole hot dog and started chewing on it.  Then the hot dog was more exciting.

Tomorrow's Thursday....which means Saturday will get here soon.  NOT soon enough!!!