Petco

Friday 10-28-11

The little girl we watch during the day announced this morning that we had to go somewhere, where were we going today?!  Well, we have been to the library two days in a row, so that was out, it was too cold to go to the town’s playground or the neighbor’s swing set, so… we went to Petco.  In the next two weeks, I would have had to go, anyway to get more dog food.  First stop at Petco was the cats for adoption.  Ellie LOVEs cats, so that went well.  Then, the fish, assorted reptiles, guinea pigs, rats, hamsters, gerbils, mice and finally the ferrets, two of which were taken out by a very nice employee for us to play with.  After all that, we headed back to the dog food so I could load 200 pounds (you get a discount) plus one free bag.  With 8 bags on the cart, baby boy in the sling, Ellie throwing mini fits because the little girl who was only trying to help her up off the floor, kept bumping her back onto the floor; we slowly managed to make it to the front of the store.  As I struggled to push the heavy cart through the obstacle-course  que to the registers, several people cut through the obstacles thwarting my attempt to check out quickly and load up the car.  I am glad we do not have a picture of all of us struggling outside to the car!  All-in-all, the adventure was a blast, we got home in time for a late lunch which meant straight to naps, do not pass GO, do not collect free play time. 

After the kids left for the day, Ellie, Daddy and I went out to play in the driveway with her new Super-Bounce ball – one of those 25 cent coin machine balls.  She drops it and it bounces down the slope of the driveway and Ellie runs for the FIRST time!  Yeah!