So the other day I was grocery shopping with all six of our kids. This requires a lot of focus seeing as how we coupon and watch for sales and clearance and what not to keep our grocery budget down. Bug sits in the cart so he is pretty easy and Hulk is honestly just very compliant. He will typically hang on to the cart as he has been taught to. The two older boys need something to do or they go crazy. So they require a lot of attention. And while the girls are helpful in that they can run and find a product for me or hold a toddler's hand, they are not helpful in that they tend to want to chat with me about totally random, un-grocery related things and it's distracting. So, all that to say, we were making our way down an isle where a bunch of baby food was (although I was there for the other side of the isle with canned tomatoes) and this older woman followed by a younger woman said, "Oh! She's got lots of kids, we will ask her!" She came over and was so sweet and smiley and I was very focused and not paying attention to any context to the possible question that came out of her mouth. "When did you start your babies on cereal?" (To just show my entire lack of the context of the isle we were standing in my first thought was breakfast cereal, which I quickly realized was silly!) I responded, "Infant cereal? Ew! Never." "What?" she replied, "You didn't feed them cereal?" "No. There is no nutritional value in that stuff! I just nursed my babies until they were about 9 months and then slowly let them have finger foods." was my reply. Still not believing me the woman said, "You mean to tell me you never added cereal to a bottle to help your newborn sleep?!" Ah Ha! Now that she spelled it out I finally figured out what was going on! Lol! She had been trying to talk the younger woman (a new mom) into adding cereal to a bottle to help her young baby sleep. Oops! I probably would've been gentler and slower to respond if I had realized I was supposed to settle an argument! Ha! The older woman mumbled something about bravery and wondered off and the young woman smiled broadly at me. I looked at my girls, cringed, and said "Oops! That didn't go how she expected." And now something cute. Bug's new favorite word is "Hi!" When daddy gets home he smiles big and says "Hi!" about 15 times in the first minute. He also carries his moose-y around and makes Moose-y say "Hi!" to people. Good grief! It is cute! So the other night at small group he toddled into the room with Moose-y and went to the other side of the table from me beside a friend of our's. From my view I saw Moose-y's body thrust up into the air above the table and beside the woman and Bug's little voice say, "HI!" about five times before the woman realized Moose-y was speaking to her! And now some pictures...
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Kim Cover
5/11/2017 11:16:17 am
Love getting quick snippets of the going on with the Coffman family!!! You look great Lindsey and the grocery store ditty makes me smile! Hugs and love to you all!!!
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Melissa Barrett
5/13/2017 04:24:58 pm
Love it all - you're one hot Mama!!
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