It gets more joyous every year that I'm a mother.
This weekend was a marathon of sorts. The annual Ladies Retreat that I attend was Friday and Saturday. I took Miss Pinky with me, since we are attached at the ... well, we are attached.
I will admit to being totally thrilled to get to show her off. I carefully chose her outfits to elicit adoring glances and compliments. No shame here. NO SHAME.
I drove home in a stupor of sleep deprivation, with my partner in crime Thithy in tow. We jabbered the whole time home, and I hope to God that neither of us remember what we said, because we were both so out of it.
Mr Lemon did me a huge favor and shampooed the carpets while I was gone, and also surprised me with a fantastic new double stroller for Mother's Day and a lovely card. It's the Baby Trend Sit N Stand Double, so it converts easily from a double stroller to a sit and stand.
(I know. That entire sentence was redundant. I apologize.)
I'm pretty pumped about it, and I plan to get plenty of use out of it this summer. My lofty goal is to get Zesty to the park every day that it is nice this summer, whether I feel like it or not.
And then last night after church I did the unthinkable ... I put Zesty in his car seat first, and laid the keys in the door handle. And. Closed the door.
I came back to the car with Pinky to find it locked. He's apparently able to reach the door handle now. He had my keys in his hand, pressing every button except the unlock button.
awesome.
Of course I am flipping out at this point. A few of the suggestions thrown out there from the crowd were call the police, call OnStar (which, thank you very much, they are not helpful if you don't pay them money. So. I may just be paying them money.), jimmy the lock, call your husband, where's your spare key, Liz? No spare key?
I'd just like to say at this point, if you have a spare key, where would you put it? I'd likely put it in my diaper bag ... which was in the back seat with Zesty and my keys.
All the time that I am freaking out and calling OnStar, and not calling my husband, also not jimmying the lock, Thithy and Auntie Tash were trying to get Zesty to press the unlock button. These people have saved my rear more times than I can count. He pressed the panic button and laughed at the car horn going off. He opened the trunk ... but my back seat does not fold down.
Finally they got him to pull up on the manual door lock. He was such a trooper about it all. Of course I rushed right in and smothered his face with kisses and praise. All the way home he kept saying "Keys! Open! beep beep beep beep beep Open! Open!"
I know. Watch me count my blessings:
1) It wasn't Pinky I put in the car first
2) He did not freak out
3) At least I was at church and not alone
4) It wasn't raining
5) He loves attention and did not freak out
5 comments:
And there's one more story for the memory books! Incidentally, Pinky looks very pretty in the purple polka dot dress!
and 6) It was not a blazing 100* outside in which case you'd have likely waited 0.2 seconds and smashed in a window to give the boy air.
You were in great shape - no harm, no foul. All ended well. :)
Oh, and interested parties need to know: does above mentioned double stroller/sit-n-stand take an infant car seat? I have an older regular sit-n-stand (that sat on the front porch for a month in rainy weather and got, uh, a tad bit mildewy...sigh) and it does NOT. Which means my that of my plethora of strollers none will work in say, 8ish months.
cjoy - it takes the Baby Trend infant seat for sure. It says other brands can be used too, but my Chicco infant seat does not work with it. I would suggest heading to Babies 'R' Us to try some different infant seats with the floor model.
Or rather, Babies 'R' YOU because no more babies for us.
You make me laugh. :)
Oh I can feel your pain. I have so done that it is the most terrible feeling in the pit of your stomach!
Happy Mothers Day
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