Grapes

Yesterday, Gillian told me "I like a fruit." She cracks me up. So I asked "Really? What fruit?" She said "It's purple. You know!" I can't remember feeding her grapes recently. I have tried in the past, but not within the last year. So I said "Grapes?" She said "Yes. I like the purple ones. Not the green ones." 

I bought her some at the food store today. When I got home, I called her upstairs and told her "I have a surprise for you." She got really excited when she saw the bag and asked "Can I have one now?" Can't say no to that. So she ate a few and danced around the kitchen. I asked her "Did one of your friends bring grapes to school?" She said "Nope. My teacher gived me some. And I love them." 

She finished her snack and went downstairs.  On her way down the stair she announced to John, "The emergency was delicious!"

The airport

We had to get up super early last Wednesday morning to get to the airport on time. We left our house at 3 am so that we could meet at Uncle T and Aunt Missy's house. We thought the kids would sleep in the car. We were wrong. They were wide awake by the time we reached Uncle T's.

Aunt Missy's dad drove us to the airport. It was raining so we were all a little nervous about the flight getting delayed (well at least the grown ups were). Gillian fell asleep on our way and as we approached the airport I whispered "Gilly, we are at the airport." She jerked awake and opened her eyes. We checked our bags (and realized we left the strollers on the van) and headed to security. John went with Uncle T while I had Gillian. John did awesome and was even given a TSA badge sticker. Gillian was also very good in security. She listened to the TSA agents and they were patient with her. 

We had plenty of time to hang out at the gate. We picked up some breakfast sandwiches (and the egg fell out of Gillian's sandwich) and waited for our plane to board. Southwest does not assign seats, but since we were traveling with small children we were able to board early. We got two rows. The boys sat in front with John at the window while the girls sat behind them with Gillian at the window. 

It was the kids first flight. We were not sure how they were going to like it. As we were taking off, John loudly told Daddy and Uncle T "The plane is going to catch on fire!"  Gillian, on the other hand, repeated "We flying! We flying!"

 

 

Again, we thought the kids would sleep on the plane. That didn't happen. They were wide awake and colored in their new books or played on Daddy's iPad. Gillian enjoyed the snack. Well she enjoyed everyone's snack. She ate her cookies, my cookies and some of Aunt Missy's too! 

As we were landing, John said "We're going down!" I felt the need to correct him and said "Yes, the plane is landing!" We landed and took the tram over go the main terminal and that's where we found Mimi and Poppy.  

Below are some pictures from the airport.

Shopping Assistant

I had to run a few errands today and before I left the house, I asked the kids if they wanted to go with me. John said "No!" Gillian said "Yes! I go shopping!" 

One of our stops was a craft store. We were looking for princess toppers for Gillian's birthday cupcakes. Gillian kept stopping and picking up random things saying "Mommy! We need this!" Or "Mommy! Look flowers!" We didn't find  toppers in that store, but we did get a few things for her goodie bags. 

Our next stop was the food store. When I parked the car, Gillian said "I'm tired." This was her way of telling me that she wanted to sit in a shopping cart. I loaded her into the cart and as I pushed her into the store she yells "This da food store?!" I was not the only one that heard her, because as we walked thru the produce section one of the employees stopped to say hello to both of us. Gillian conned me into buying bananas and donuts. She had to hold them on her lap. When I tried to hand her something else, she told me "I not a octopus!" A fellow shopper heard Gillian say this and laughed and stopped to say hello to Gillian. As we went thru the dairy section, Gillian told everyone around us "We need yogurt!" And then proceeded to argue with me when I told her we didn't need yogurt (she got the yogurt). I can't remember what she said in the meat section, but she made another shopper laugh and laugh. We got to the register and she told me "Mommy, put get everything out of the cart!" 

We went home. Gillian had a little snack. She started with a yogurt. We called John upstairs for a snack. I told him that Gillian was eating yogurt. Gillian added her two sense "It's really good!" They ate their snack and we headed back out to do more errands. 

In the party store, she had to touch every  princess thing in the store. In Target she arranged everything in the cart. Twice. In Costco, she held my membership card and proudly handed it to the cashier. 

In the car about two miles from home, she fell asleep. She was exhausted. A full day of shopping was too much for my little lady. I am thankful. She made my errands an adventure.