O Crap!

Going grocery shopping with Abby has become somewhat of an adventure. She absolutely hates to sit in the cart and this morning was no exception. We started out our morning at the park...for over an hour. When it was time to go we had a major drama queen melt down and then headed off to Kroger. I assumed that since we already had a melt down at the park that we(she) would do fine at the store. Turns out that the park was just a warm up. The second I tried to put her in the cart she arched her back and threw her head back and refused to sit down. To make things even better there were people there from the Dallas Morning News giving away free newspapers and the nice man asked me, while my daughter was screaming her head off, if I would like a free newspaper. Ummmm, yes please, that way I can whack you upside the head for thinking I need one more thing to hold onto while my daughter is trying to throw herself overboard! Genius!
So, we made it past Mr Observant and friend and into the store where the flowers seemed to clam her down for a minute, or so I thought. Nope...she was just catching her breath. When you have kids you quickly learn that the longer the silence in bewtween cries the louder the cry is going to be. Lets just say I will never wonder if her lungs are good. There we were, we were "those people", you know the ones...toddler throwing a tantrum and the mother to ticked to leave the store so she makes everyone else listen to her child scream like there is no tomorrow. I think this fit lasted about five minutes, which to me felt like forever. I finally got her in her seat with her snack and we were doing good. We stopped on the asile with the mac and cheese ( Annies is on sell for a buck!) and as I was grabbing the boxes one fell down. My sweet daughter yell "Ughhh, O crap mama, O crap"
Abby starts preschool tomorrow, I hope no one drops anything in front of her!