I never gave it much thought before Lowly was born, but the average shopping cart is not Mommy friendly.
I attempted to go shopping today with WeeBee and Lowly. WeeBee was perfectly behaved. Lowly screamed bloody murder every time I stopped to get an item off a shelf. I did discover today that fortunately people think newborn screaming is much cuter than toddler screaming. Either that or the sight of me pushing a cart with my elbow and rib cage while holding a newborn with my toddler saying "Hiiii!" to everyone we passed was so entertaining that they didn't give me the skunk eye.
Which brings me to my problem - with the exception of Costco, which has double wide carts, going shopping with these two turns into a game of tetris. In some stores I can put Lowly in the front and WeeBee in the back. I wouldn't mind too much, but I never know when WeeBee is going to decide that we really don't need that glass jar of spaghetti sauce, and send it flying. In other stores Lowly goes in the back in her carseat because the angle is too steep if she's in the front, but then the carseat takes up all the space in the cart, and I have to wedge groceries around her. I'm always afraid I'm going to accidentally miss something that's slipped under her carseat, and the cashier will think I'm trying to shoplift. I'm not saying that all the stores should have all their carts seat 4 or 5 kids. Is having a few carts that are designed to fit 2 children all that unreasonable, though?
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