A Day at the Mall

On Saturday we met Kim, Pete, & Regan at Upper Canada Mall for lunch. Since we knew we were going to be spending the afternoon at the mall we were trying to coordinate our travel with Jason having a nap. Of course, Murphy's Law, he had a long nap in the morning & we knew that putting him in the van an hour after he got up was not going to result in a nap on the way to Newmarket. So we called Kim & Pete and asked if we could meet up an hour later.

On the way home from Newmarket we were going to stop at a furniture store to look at one more option for Sydney's big girl bed before making our final decision. So to be sure that we still had time to do it we decided to stop on the way. After the furniture store we were going to find a Tim Horton's (not a difficult task in the Golden Horseshoe) so that we could feed Jason before heading out for Newmarket.

Well, our little pit stop turned out to take a little longer than planned. Miss Sydney was drinking her milk & tipped it a little too far resulting in a spill that mainly landed on her pants. She of course started to freak, because this is what she does when she gets her clothes wet (unless of course she is playing with water in the sink). Brad took her into the bathroom to see if he could get them a little dryer using the hand blowers, but of course that was pretty much a wasted effort. When he brought her back out to the table she was still upset about the state of her pants & proceeded to try & take them off! Thankfully her Pull-up provided some resistance so she did not get them down before we could explain to her that she can't take her pants off in public. I thought this little "obsession" only applied to wet socks, but apparently it is all clothing. We told her that when we got to the van we would take her pants off & Mommy would hold them over the vent during our drive so that they would be dry by the time we got to Newmarket. Thankfully this worked.

Our little drama put us behind schedule & we had a couple patches of freaky weather that slowed down the driving- therefore we arrived late. I don't think Kim & Pete minded too much except that Regan was getting rather impatient for her cousins to arrive. We had a very nice lunch (although the service wasn't impressive), I got to exchange some Christmas presents, found something for Jason to wear for his 6 month portrait, and Sydney & Regan had fun playing on the indoor playground. The Dads also put the girls on the mechanical rides that they have for kids & we learned that those rides "soak" you even more now than when we were kids. It was a loonie per ride & the ride lasted for maybe 45 seconds. Brutal!

But, all in all, it was a nice day at the mall with family.