Is Violet An Elf?

Let's open up with today's low- I am failing at a decent balanced meal plan lately for my kids. This is in part to pickiness increasing, but in large from my lack of planning. Everything goes great when I have a weekly menu for all meals and snacks and can pick and choose from that each day. 

This is great in theory. 

It rarely actually ever is pulled off. The big hurdle being simply getting to the grocery store, and also being organized before I do so. 

I finally reached the limit this morning and knew it was time to bite the bullet and head out to get actual food for the family I'm in charge of feeding. 

Violet has a new trick. 

Oh this stuff in the cart?? It should go on the floor. 

The entire time. 

If I'm not holding her hands together- she is like a freed animal and is just tossing groceries out of my cart. 

Grab the milk out of the fridge, lose the bread onto the floor. 

Check the calories on the cheese....there goes the beef!

Mom rage was rising. 

Big nuggets laughed hysterically at this, however, and it ended up being funny in the moment. 

With that said---I will be grocery shopping without the tiny nugget for an indefinite amount of time.

Mom!!! I NEED FLOWERS!! Please mom, can we get 5 kinds?? We need them everywhere. Like a garden inside our house. Oh mom, take my picture with them. PLEASE!

This was the best I could do with crazy pants unloading the cart at lightning speed behind me. 

I'm sure she'll want it framed and kept for 10 years.

Next Lucy tried to convince Jack he'd be a good turtle. He said this was not true because the shell would hurt his back, and he is supposed to just "be a Jack". 

After school, we burnt some time at Petco. Leave it to Jack to find this dog toy 

Boba Fett is apparently popular to the canine crowd. 

Meet the one and only animal in the store Lucy did not beg to take home.

"Oh that is just disgusting" 

MOM. When I get my hamster for my birthday (uhhh??) he will need a house. Mom, I found the greatest house for him. OH he is going to love it! 

SQUEEEEEEEAL!!

Also- Petco has this awesome thing called "play time" when anybody can just go in and play with the cats. We discovered this today and Jack and Lucy tortured a poor innocent creature for the better part of half an hour. 

Hey, you want your animals to be "used" to people- my kids will take care of that for ya.

They actually will never stop touching the animal unless you take it away. 

Violet practiced using utensils at dinner.

She was super awesome at it. 

Just kidding- she totally ditched the spoon within 5 seconds.

Next I had an awkward conversation trying to convince Lucy that Violet was not an elf. 

"She is Mom, I know it."

And just before bed Jack opened his backpack to take out the library book he'd brought home from preschool. Published in 1965-

I'd like the teacher to tell me why.

Anyways. let's crack open this novel...some of excerpts include

"Can shock cause gray hair," "How long have cows been domesticated" and "Can a person be hypnotized against his will" ...as well as these incredibly odd examples of races

If Jack calls any of you any of the soid names- I apologize.

A personal favorite-

Really, there's no text necessary to explain the question. The picture says enough.

Some light reading for the 4 year old is always nice.

Ended the evening with fun grown up time with friends and board games and overall would have to say the whole day was a high! Was productive with grocery getting (not so much menu planning but eh) and even cleaned out my fridge. Which, if thought too hard about can get depressing to think of how much money is lost in waste, but just don't think that hard. It's nice to have a clean fridge, people. 

See you soon!