Ice, Ice Baby

Since I'm confessing, I guess I'll have to tell you about our trip to the grocery store on Sunday. I've found that the easiest way to get shopping done is to put Sarah in her car seat inside of the shopping cart. She likes to look around and is usually happy as long as the cart is moving. The only disadvantage to this is that there is very little room left for the groceries.

So, on Sunday, I managed to balance everything that we needed on the sides of the car seat and in the small nooks between the car seat and the grocery cart. We had all of the essentials - milk, vegetables, fruit, raspberry sorbet, bread, etc. I was feeling pretty smug. This shopping with a newborn stuff is a piece of cake.

At just about the time I was going to stop a frazzled mom and offer some parenting tips, a scream came out of my shopping cart. Hmmm... I must not be pushing the cart fast enough. No problem. I'll push faster that always works. I pushed faster. The screaming got louder. I made some quick weaving motions, maybe I wasn't weaving enough. Nope. More screaming. I pulled out all of my shopping cart tricks. Still, more screaming.

Finally, I stopped pushing (I was starting to break a sweat). I stepped to the front of the cart to take a look at the source of the wailing. There was sweet Sarah in a pretty little green and white outfit with a pint of frozen raspberry sorbet in her lap. Yes. This was her first lesson in the second law of thermodynamics - any spontaneous process results in an increase of entropy.

Here's some classic Sarah for you. She can't be bothered with being photographed today.



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