Waking up

How do you wake up??
There are so many ways to wake up: kids giving you hugs, snuggling with you, the sun peeking through your window, kids playing nicely in the other room, even the alarm going off.

My day began in a different way.

Morning:
This morning I got hit in the temple with a dinosaur. This is not one of my acceptable forms of being woken up.

Mid-morning:
Dropped off papers for kiddo's school registration and the toddler yelled so ferociously when we attempted and then actually left, that the outdoor hallways were echoing with cries. Everyone stopped to take a look and I'm pretty sure the director took notes. *For future reference sibling is not allowed to attend for fear of staff and student hearing and sanity loss.

Afternoon:
Grocery shopping, we enter, kiddo hangs on the side, toddler in the seat up front while I am grabbing strawberries when I turn to see...the cart falling! The kiddo was still hanging on and the toddler was about to slam his head into the tile over concrete flooring and he couldn't get out. We were in the 1st of 2 stores and we had been there for less than 2 minutes! Safe but scared we ended up getting our shopping done with only one kiddo time-out in the dairy section, kiddo dropping one of the tasting foods in the aisle, toddler screaming because he didn't want to share the water and allowing an elderly person to cut in front of us without running over her heels or bumping her in the butt.

Evening:
As I was getting my kiddo out of his bath my little one walks in chewing, but on what? I asked him to spit it into my hand. He did and what did I get but melting chocolate and bright yellow aluminum foil. Then he ran away. Grrr! He took a bite of one of the Easter chocolates I bought for his cousin- he bit right through the foil! What a little chocolate ball! He had only been out of the bathroom for minutes.

****Last night they went to bed late because of being at my parents, woke up at the usual time, they had no nap and were dealing with errands for several hours in a row--I was testing the fates and came out alive but just barely!