Two Babies and a Pug

We walked to the store. This is normal since we are a one car family. It is funny to look back to when we were a two car family. I could never fathom only having one vehicle to navigate around in. How can people like that even function???

We made the leap, after I became a stay-at-home mom, to save money and it has been one of the better money choices we have made. You can't go shopping if you can't get to the mall. And there are all the benefits of no car payments, no insurance, no gas and tons of exercise when I do venture to the local grocery store.

Once again, we walked to the store. I baby-wear Tidus exclusively to keep him off the back of his head. Even though he has his helmet I still like to do all I can to get him rounded out. Ted rides in the small stroller and Ruby came along since the store allows dogs... and why not? Most people would probably think this is crazy. They are right. There is no way to justify my decisions, I just make them.

As we strolled (because when you are pushing a stroller, you are strolling) along the 6 lane road we live off of, we passed a girl wearing knee high black boots, a short leather skirt and long blue hair. My initial reaction was, wow she is a character. And then I paused and realized what I look like.

Let me tell you.

I forgot to mention we also stopped by the newspaper stand to pick up our free weekly local paper. It has all the goings on of Huntington Beach.

I am a 30 year old woman wearing a baby with a helmet that looks like something off of Tron. Ted is a 2-year-old with Star Lord ball cap and sunglasses. He is holding up his newspaper reading it. And we have a pug ('nough said). Our little possy probably looks like quite the group. ESPECIALLY when we rolled up to the store.

Ted insists on riding in the grocery cart shaped like a car. With a heave and a ho Ted and Ruby are packed behind the two steering wheels. Three attempts later and the stroller is folded up in a way that fits it into the oddly shaped cart.

"You've got your hands full," was mentioned about 5 different times.

"Wow two babies and a pug," came from an employee.

"What a cute little group you have there," was my favorite. It came from an older couple who passed as I was still finagling with the stroller-into-cart task.

Yes, I had my hands full. Yes it could have been much easier had I left the pug at home. But it went well. Ted was awesome, Ruby never succeeded in leaping from the cart, and Tidus slept (like a boss).

The hero of the day is the genius person who invented the car shaped cart. He (or she) and the person who started handing out free cookies at grocery store bakeries are my two favorite shopping friends.

Ted just barely allowed me to take his picture when we arrived home. This was only after I promised he could take my picture too. A little visual for you of our hands-full group.