Grocery Store Madness

OK so my wonderful sister and I are having to share a vehichle right now because I can't use mine, so we take turns staying at my house one night then hers one night. It works out really well for us! Well last night we were going to stay at my house, so a friend of my sister's said they would give her a ride over there so I could go to the store to pick up some groceries. Our two oldest kids rode with my sister and the two youngest rode with me. (Pictured above. Both are four years old) Well when we get to the store we go to the produce department, my daughter, Anoe, (who talks all the time) starts asking why am I getting the stuff I'm getting. What's the name of this, and that and just being her normal hyper self. As we go to get the lunch meat she spots the lunchables! In her world the only thing better than having a lunchable for dinner is to eat cereal. Well I'm picking out what lunch meat we need for dinner and she's asking (over and over again) if she can have a lunchable. I say no, so she gets down on her knees and clasps her hands together like she's praying and starts saying please, please, please, please with the biggest smile ever. Now if you're not used to this, you'd probably give in but seeing how she does this over everything (and I am the Mom) I'm immune to such behavior. OK so we get away fromt the lunch meat and move on to the cheese, she sees the sticks of cheese that are individually wrapped and of course wants it, I tell her no we can buy a block of cheese and cut them ourselves and save money. She just gives me "the look" which means whatever Mom. Now this whole time my nephew, Xander, is in the shopping cart asking to get out. I keep telling him no. And Anoe wants in, but anybody that knows her knows that she's way bigger than most four year olds so there's really not enough room in the cart. So to keep her happy I let her start to push the cart. Xander starts asking "What about me Tia?" So I tell him I'll get the stuff off the shelf, give it to him, and he can put it in the cart. I think it's a really good idea! I handed him a GLASS jar of Mayo. He tells me it isn't his so he just lets go. I'm scrambling to catch the jar before it hits the floor and explodes! Now I'm thinking all we need are chips and some dip and we can leave, easy enough right? NO!!!! With Anoe pushing the cart and Xander standing up doing his "surfing" moves we try to make it to the chip aisle. There's a Santa on top of the frozen food aisle that constantly waves and moves side to side. Anoe starts yelling "Santa Santa! Hi Santa!" over and over of course. She doesn't do this in a nice inside voice either, oh no she's yelling so loud the people in the parking lot probably heard her. Hanging from the ceiling the store has advertisements hanging. One has an older lady holding fruit or something and Xander starts pointing at the picture saying Grandma, the next one has another lady and Xander says Mom! But now remember this whole time that Anoe is pushing the cart, I have my hand on the front to guide, and Xander is "grocery cart surfing". Anoe decides all of the sudden with no warning what-so-ever to just jump on the cart so I'm trying my best to drag it around the store with one child surfing in it and the other hanging on it like a monkey. Finally to the chip aisle, I get the Pickle chips Anoe has been wanting and get some other ones that my sister told me she likes and we go to get the dip. We make it out of both areas without any kind of disaster! YAY!!! I get in the shortest line, there's only one cart in front of me so I thought we'd get done super quick! Oh no, there were three people in line but they were just holding their stuff in their hands. (It's kind of a weird set up) So I figure instead of fighting with Xander to keep him in the cart why not just let him get out. Except he starts "break dancing" in the middle of the aisle! People are actually having to move so they don't hit him walking by! While Xander is break dancing, Anoe sees a box of Vanilla Wafers with an advertisement for a CD on the box. For some reason only known to her this is just hilarious! She's laughing so loud people are staring at her. I keep telling them both to come stand next to me and behave, so the come over there with me only to try and sit on the coke display! There's not enough room for both of them so Xander tries to squeeze in, then climb behing some of the sodas. They start leaning over like they're fixing to fall. Thankfully I'm able to get them off of the display before they do all fall over. The soda display has a big hole in the front where people can leave food they would like to donate to the food bank. Anoe starts looking over the edge to see what all is in there. Of course Xander wants to see too, but he's way shorter than Anoe (see photo above) so he's trying to climb on the soda display to look over but the display is made out of 20 oz sodas that are in the form of a six pack. Very unstable for a person to climb on! Finally I'm done paying and we're out the door. The young lady that sacks the groceries also takes them to the car for us. Anoe turns around and asks "Why is she following us?" I just want to get in the blooming car and leave!!! But of course I still have to fight with trunk so it will open. I don't usually have to fight with it, but Anoe was "helping" the grocery store lady open it so I'm sure that had something to do with it. With all the bags in the car and everyone safely in we finally get to go home!! YAY we made out alive and in one piece!!! I'll remember next time to leave the younger kids at home and take the big girls! (Yeah I've said that so many times its crazy!)