Ikea & A Toddler

Am I crazy? A little bit. But we did have Uncle Ben & Auntie Jess to help us! On a Saturday morning, no less! We thought if we got there pretty much right when it opened that it wouldn't be that busy...wrong! I bought Braden the cutest little monkey-leash backpack and he did so good with it!

Daddy was a leash baby, and now so is Braden. Jay posted on Facebook yesterday under this picture:

"Hehe, that boys gonna go far... In the future... For now he's stuck on a leash."

How true! He actually did REALLY well with it. It allowed him to run around, but for mommy to literally have a hold on him! Then we found this awesome steering wheel...steering wheels are one of Braden's favorite things

He might have cried a little bit when we told him "all done" and we had to keep moving...but in all honesty, for a 19 month old, to cry a bit (not even a hissy fit) just to walk away from said item...really not bad at all! Ben and Jess needed a desk, so we played on the spinney office chairs and even put some work in on the fake computers!

By the time we were done shopping it was mightly close to nap time and he'd already had a snack and drink so thankfully Auntie Jess took Braden out of the line-up and distracted him until we were done. Braden barely made it home awake, but he did and had an awesome 3 hour nap! He's still getting over a head cold and cough but sleeping really well (praise, GOD!) Then Ben & Jess came back out to Mom & Dad's and spent the afternoon with us and had pizza and stayed for a movie.

So that's my little blurb on our trip to Ikea with my toddler! Definitely will never do that by myself!