Bonus Post: Mitchell Shopping!

My mom and I take the kids out shopping once or twice a week. Sometimes, Joe and I have errands to run on the weekends, too, making the amount of time my kids are in carts or strollers pretty high. Since they are used to being carted and strolled around, they actually seem to like it and don't complain to get out and walk.

But, sometimes, Mitchell gets tired or bored. He doesn't care where he is. He doesn't care what we're doing. If he wants to, he will find a way to take a nap. And he can sleep through anything.

I've been collecting pictures of him sleeping in stores over the winter. Here he is in all his glory! (He is going to be so embarrassed some day if he ever finds this blog!!!)

This just so happens to be the first time he sat like this in the cart. This was back in early October, so he was just about 18 months old when he figured this shopping position out. And, just to let you know, he was belted in when he managed this!

I took two pictures this particular day. This is on the way into the store.

This is on the way out.

This particular day, Mitchell woke up like 2 hours before his normal time, so it was no surprise that he fell asleep (hardcore!!) during our last stop of the day. In fact, he was so tired that he slept in the car there, the entire time we shopped, all the way back to my mom's and even a little more when we got to my mom's!

This is also a notable day because it was a huge sale day at this particular thrift store, so the place was packed. AT LEAST 25 other shoppers said to me, "I wish I could sleep like that" or "someone looks pooped" or something to that effect. I'm not even kidding you, some people even came up to me multiple times as we passed each other in the store to tell me they couldn't believe he was still sleeping!

He was awake when we got into the store...

I only know this picture is from Toys-R-Us around Christmas time because my niece was getting an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas and I was on the look out for the food mixes to go along with it. I only walked around the store for 15, maybe 20 minutes looking for the mixes, but during that time, Mitchell completely pooped out. Shopping for other kids is no fun for him, I guess!

Look at how big he's gotten since the last picture like this!

This picture was taken a few weeks back. No matter if he's buckled in, which he usually is and very tightly might I add, he still somehow manages to get into this position every so often.

Sleeping in the back of the cart with my mom's coat keeping him warm.

This picture was taken just the other day. Recently, Mitchell fell asleep on the way to the store and when I put him in the seat of the cart, he woke up. He ended up whining and crying so badly that we ended up leaving the store pretty quickly because he was just so sad. So, the other day, when he fell asleep on the way to the store, my mom talked me into laying him in the back of the cart so he could stay asleep.

My mom and I took our time. She pushed Quinn, who talked and sang the entire time, as usual. I pushed Mitchell, who slept so soundly and didn't move an inch that he got mistaken for a doll twice!! And, embarrassingly enough, the clerk got pretty mad at me for not emptying my cart, thinking I didn't have to pay for my doll. I was all like, "Dude, that's my baby. Like, I birthed that kid. I already pay for him. All the time." The clerk apologized for his mistake and even laughed at himself for being an idiot. The customers behind me also poked their faces in my cart to make sure Mitchell was real and I wasn't scamming (I'm guessing. They never said one way or the other).