Teaholic not quite anonymous

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Let me just say, Maddy understands the concept of a horn. Maddy and I needed to go grocery shopping today. Boy, did we need to go! We were virtually out of all fresh fruits and veggies not to mention down to our last frozen bag of mixed vegetables. So off we went. I put Maddy in one of those shopping carts that have the car for kids to sit in on the front. I didn't think she'd stay in it, honestly. I thought she'd stay in it for five minutes or so or until we came to the first stop and she'd want to get out and walk around. Nope! She LOVED it. The only time she wanted to get out was at the checkout and then I couldn't blame her since she couldn't see anything since the checkouts were in her way.

But anyway, she found the horn on steering wheels of the car. So as I would 'drive' her around the store, she'd honk one horn. Then she'd honk the other horn. Pretty soon she was honking both of them together! And the faster I went, the faster she'd honk them. Once she even 'yelled' at a store clerk because he had a large cart in the middle of the aisle. It was as if she's telling him, "GET OUT OF OUR WAY!" It was funny. (Yes, I did call her down for that after I giggled though.)

Speaking of calling her down... she's a stubborn little thing. Yesterday Matt and I were in the kitchen after dinner cleaning up and Maddy decided to start throwing the magnetic letters associated with her Leapfrog sound-it-out toy. Well, she threw two and Matt tells her no. She threw another one and he tells her NO again. Well, after the third one he looked at me like, "What the hell am I supposed to do now?!" So he picks her up and takes her in the living room and puts her down, again, telling her no. He comes back in the kitchen and she follows behind him, runs to the dishwasher where the letters are, looks at him and throws another one! By this point I am DYING laughing. I couldn't help it. I was trying to hide it but I knew I wasn't doing a very good job. So, again, he picks her up, takes her into the living room and it happens again AND AGAIN. Finally, she stopped...although I can't remember why now, I think she just got bored? But man, she has her own little mind, that's for sure. She's a hoot!

Tomorrow I have a playgroup with a small group of friends and then tomorrow night I have Mom's Night Out. Thursday I have another playgroup at a park not too far from our house. That should be fun!

Oh, we're getting Verizon Fios TV installed again. Yes, again. Well, it's $13 less a month than DirecTV for more channels and it's all digital. I don't like the interface that much but for $13 off, I'll take it. Plus, because we get all three services (TV, internet and phone) from Fios we get a $25 bundle discount. So really, that's a good chunk of change! They are supposed to be updating the interface of the Verizon DVR really soon, so hopefully that will make it all better anyway.

Alrighty, I'm going to brave the heat and vacuum out the car. Call me crazy, but I can't stand the stale goldfish crackers in the back seat another second. And trust me, I'm NOT one of those crazy car people who wash their car every weekend. (And if you are, yes, I just called you crazy.) My car hasn't been washed since last summer (at a charity car wash) and before that it had been YEARS. I don't think I've ever vacuumed out the inside of the car. EVER. I'm itching to try my new cordless dustbuster, too. Call me nuts.

Tea of the day: Suntea--it's gone, but I made more.
WO of the day: Elliptical for 30 minutes and resistance bands.