Going out...

Shopping carts are interesting with three. For some reason there are very few places here that have carts that hold multiple children. At some places I can find carts with the "car" attached and if I am lucky enough it is a place where the car is on the front of the cart so that Jo has a place to sit facing me while the boys sit in the car. Up until recently if we had a car cart where the kids sit up-top the boys would sit in the car and Jo would be in her car seat in the basket. Well, yesterday I put Jo in the "car" section and my boys, who usually want to walk rather than be contained in a cart, fought over who got to sit next to Jo. Jo was absolutely thrilled to be "driving." At one point Doug was sitting on Andy's lap in their quest to be in the cart.

Then we went to another store that has lousy carts for multiple children so Jo rode and the boys walked. Here is the typical dialogue going through the store...
Me: Boys, usual rules....if you get too far from the cart I am going to put you in the basket
Doug (to a random person): Hi
Andy: Here mommy
Me: No, we are not getting Dora yogurt
Jo: Boboboboboboooobobob
Doug: (to a different random person) Hi, we have big machines
Me: No Andy, we are not getting Diego yogurt either...put it back
Me: boys too far...that's one...that's two...
Andy: I coming! I coming

and on and on it goes...These conversations are interspersed with random people asking about and talking with the kids. I have turned around from saying something to the boys only to find an old lady talking to Jo. This morning we went and had donuts for breakfast and the kids made friends with the lady behind the counter and some random older gentleman. We don't go any where quietly....people know when we have arrived.