Saturday we were at home and I was taking pictures of the girls as they played. MDF had set out her tea set, and was organizing a picnic or a tea party on the green footstool.
CEF was playing nearby on her mat. She has started cooing and “talking” more. She’s figured out how to make noises with her pacifier as well. She is very funny.
This past weekend I took off Friday so I could go to Jacksonville with CDF and the girls. CDF, Stephanie, and Carolyn were going shopping and I went along so I could visit Matthew while they were out and about. MDF went with CDF and I took CEF.
First we went over to my parent’s house so they could watch CEF while Matt and I went out. I picked up Matt around Noon and we went over to Books-a-Million. Somehow he scraped a finger so after running through the rain into the store we had to run back to the car and go find a CVS to purchase bandaids. Once he was finally fixed up we went back and browsed the magazines for a while.
I dropped him back off at his house around 2 PM and then went to pick up CEF. She had been a good baby. Ivan had fed her a bottle around 1 PM, and then she was sitting with my Mother while they ate lunch.
We stayed to eat supper with CDF’s family (Chinese), and after that we headed home. It was still raining, but not too hard. We got home in time to put the girls to bed close to the normal time.
This evening I took MDF and CEF to McDonalds to support a friends school (buy something and part of the proceeds goes to the school). After realizing the school was in Rocky Point but the restaurant was in Burgaw (I’ll not go into that) we eventually arrived.
At first everything was OK. We talked to the Harrells briefly and ordered M&M Fluries. But on the way to the playground outside MDF spotted the “Hamburgler” and that purple guy. They were walking around the store greeting the children, but MDF didn’t want anything to do with them. She started crying and I had to hurry her out.
She tried to play on the playground, but she spotted the costumed people going out to the road and I heard her start wailing somewhere up in the jungle gym. She made it out and had to sit with me for a while and eat some ice cream.
When her friend started boasting about hugging the purple guy, it just made MDF want to go home. So we made our way through the store — she covered her eyes as we passed the “Hamburgler” — and said goodbye to the Harrell family. A couple of people tried to talk to CEF, but that just made her cry. So I hurried them both out of the restaurant and back to the van.
On the way home MDF said she would just laugh at those silly people, but she didn’t want to go back. We could go home and finish our ice cream instead.