So, Nate turned a year older this weekend. Yea for two-years-old!
In other news, all of the other kids have aged five years apiece.
Not kidding. We started this summer with two cute four-year-olds and a mama’s girl seven-year-old.
Somehow we’re ending it with a bunch of teenagers.
Case in point, we all headed to the mall yesterday because M needed a new iPad. More on that later (i.e. because the iPad is not just a new toy. really. more later).
Now, let me just say that our family knows cumbersome mall trips. We’ve had family trips with double strollers, and with two strollers, and me in a wheelchair because I’m immobile and hugely pregnant with twins, and trips with kids melting down every five steps.
Saturday? Saturday was different. Nate, the crazy-big two-year-old, was STROLLER-FREE! Sam was intrigued about the iPad purchase–and a bit convinced we were buying HIM an iPad, so holding M’s hand and talking non-stop.
And the girls…well, the girls wanted to shop. Catie has entered the “I HAVE MONEY AND WANT TO SPEND IT!” phase of her life. Let’s be honest, it’ll probably be a phase she sticks with for a while. We let her check out Claire’s, where she bought some crazy rhinestone cell phones filled with lip gloss. She counted out her money, paid the patient checker, and even bought one for her little sister. With her (almost empty) purse on her hip, her arm around Elisabeth, and a bag filled with a cell phone/make-up conglomerate, she looked just like a regular mall rat.
At the Apple Store, Nate played with the iPads like a pro, even discovering some new apps he wanted us to get (no, really, I’m not kidding. We considered an iPad-themed birthday party for him, he’s so obsessed with them).
The big kids navigated the nearest MacBook to the PBS kids website and watched videos, while M and I bought the iPad.
Oh, except Catie paused once in a while to help Nate and Sam with their games.
And to put on lip gloss with Elisabeth.
I’m telling you, they’re all teenagers.
