Girls Day Out

Last Friday, all three generations of Kistler/Kleinert women took an outing to a local mall.  We weren't exactly how we would carry the girls around for hours. We went armed with car seats, and fabric for baby slings.  Upon our arrival, a better idea came to mind...the girls love their car seats, but the seats are a hassle to carry.  So, why not put the girls in their car seats....in a shopping cart!  So that's what we did, and it worked out well.  We went to the book store and found various baby books.  Then we went to Woolworth's and found some new cute outfits for the girls.  We ate our first lunch out at the food court, and even did some grocery shopping.  One challenge was feeding the girls in public.  I worried they would both start screaming for food and I'd have limited options of where to discretely meet their needs.  Thankfully, the girls were quite content and did not get hungry at the same time.  It was a little hair-raising when Lizzie got hungry in the grocery store, (read: no quiet corners in sight) but overall all went on without a hitch. 

The Baby Whisperer

As the babies grow, we've both had to develop our child-calming skills.  At any time a baby may start screaming and we have to be ready to calm them back to normal functionality.  Matt has learned this skill well, and we've decided to call him the "Baby Whisperer".  When one of the babies is inconsolable, we call in Matt to do the dirty work.  He says that his skill comes from detaching his ears from his heart.  "You can't think that you're daughter is in terrible pain..."  I'm not sure I'm ready to detach my ears from my heart, but am glad to have a loving dad around to hold my screaming babies.