time for the babe

The Banana Bread Incident made me realize that The Babe and I need to get out more often. We used to have our time together quite a lot, sneaking out on errands while The Boy was in his nap, stopping on the way home for a donut each time. It's been ages since we've done that. So many things are a factor in that... the school schedule, The Boy's erratic napping these days, the freezing f-ing cold, you name it. But just because there are factors doesn't mean there are excuses.

Today I took The Babe to the mall while The Boy was sleeping. We had to buy her a new foofie (that's Babe speak for a nylon shower puff). Her foofie just fell apart in the bath last night, and while it was no emergency; buying a new one was as good a reason as any for us to get out, just us girls.

First stop was picking the new foofie. Then we soldiered on to find a suitable gift for The Babe to give her daddy on Valentine's Day. She picked a nice pair of socks, which is funny, but since he actually will like them, that's what we got him. Then we went to the Starbucks kiosk. She had chocolate milk, I had a chai, we each had a cookie. We sat in front of the super cool fountain at the mall. We literally sat on the floor right in front of it, and had a picnic while we watched the super cool fountain do it's super cool tricks. Then we wandered. We looked at the shoes at Macy's. She helped me decide which ones were coolest, even though we didn't buy any. And then we went home.

We were out for maybe 60-90 minutes, but it was fun. It was special. And it was very much needed. I hope we remember to do it more often.