Squirrel has some time off this coming week so she had to work today to make up for it. That left me with weekend errands with the duo.
First stop was to a garage sale a friend told us about. Her friends were having it and they supposedly had some size 5 clothes. Jackpot! It wasn't a huge sale, but less than $10 and we have enough pants and clothes for this fall. The hardest thing to find the girls are pants without spending crazy amounts. We have yet to get our clothing allowance and even if we had pants are still more than we wish to spend most of the time. Mind you, I'm not able to comb adds or window shop with these two. It is more like a dash and grab. When you are dashing and grabbing it is hard to find those sale prices. Until today we also have not mastered the "try this on" concept. Everything we put on we don't want to take off! Until today. We had so many clothes that Sissy was excited to put the next thing on and super cooperative. Of the 8 pair of pants or so we only had 1 pair that I thought were to small. It was great at the sale as the hosts' daughters played well with the girls while I was able to shop.
After the garage sale we headed to the outlet mall, and more specifically Old Navy as they had a sale this week, even on their clearance. That didn't go as well as the garage sale. We got a few great prices on some shirts and then we were too crazy to keep shopping. I actually had to do a football carry on Bug to get her out of the store and to the car. Trying to carry her normal she pushes off with both her arms and feet and I can only dedicate one arm to carrying her as the other is holding Sissy's hand.
I thought our errands would be done at that point, but when we got close to home they were calm so I braved JoAnn's with them. I have wanted to put different curtains up versus the black and white ones I have had in the girls' room. Both of the girls were great in the store. It helped that they both were able to ride in the cart. We all picked out the fabric together. Some pretty pastel stripes with sparkles on it.
Home meant lunch and then they were quite tired so "rest" time. Naps did not happen quickly. It took them two cranky hours before they crashed. They were then out for two hours. That gave me four hours to do all the laundry, make the curtains, and clean up around the house.
Sissy allowed me to put her hair in pigtails today. I like the look much more than the whale spout that she has been sporting. She even allowed me to trim the uneven hair at her neck. Her poor little neck is all scarred from her itching when we got her and with the pigtails it is easily seen.
After dinner Bug also allowed me to try pigtails in her hair. They are both so darn cute! We all then had to go next door to show the neighbors. They love the neighbors. Just our luck, they were just getting ready to cook out. The girls settled right in and each had 2 hotdogs and sides (each). This is after we had already eaten our dinner. Oh well.
Now we are all tucked in. The girls have finally fallen asleep. Amazing how just a few short weeks ago they screamed and cried their way to sleep. Tonight they sang themselves to sleep.
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