Fitness & Health: Our Weekend...

Kevin had his fantasy football draft Saturday, so I planned a fun mommy + daughter day. Though I absolutely adore spending time together as a family, there's something special about a one-on-one day with this sweet girl.

Kevin joined us for Little Gym before he made his way down to his friend's house for the draft and then Harper and I headed out for some lunch after her nap.

We shared some chicken roll-ups, tomato soup and slaw from Zoe's Kitchen. Yum!

| Harper's bow ? HappinessLivesHere |

After lunch, we headed to Marshall's Home Goods for a jewelry holder project I'm working on. Harper was charming everyone around us with her waves, smiles and sweetness. She sometimes gets more reserved in public places, but not yesterday!

To be honest, I try to avoid trips to the store on weekends or do them while she's sleeping because I'd rather do something that's fun for Harper like take her to the Children's Museum or on a play date. Plus, toddlers (and all kids) can get so fussy at the store because all they do is want to run around (more on that later).

However, if I do take her, I try to make the trips as fun as I possibly can and Marshalls was the perfect place to do that because there's such a variety of things to look at. As we walked through the aisles, we stopped and made funny faces in the mirrors, pointed out objects she sees in her books (decorative animal figurines, pillows, lamps, faux flowers etc). I would describe the colors and shapes we saw and let her feel different textures as we shopped. She was all smiles during this trip and really enjoyed the back-and-forth engagement we had while we strolled along. Don't get too excited because this was most definitely NOT the case at Old Navy later on in the day.

The thing I was most excited about for our mommy + daughter date was to take Harper out for her first frozen yogurt. I took her to Pinkberry and as you might imagine, Harper absolutely loved it and cried a bit when I said/signed that we were "all done." Apparently, Harper wasn't "all done." Ha.

Let's rewind a little to before we arrived at Pinkberry. I heard some strange yet familiar noises coming from the car seat and then the telltale smell. I was going to change her in the car like I've done before, but it was such a small parking lot that I didn't want to impede anyone coming or going to a parking space. So I went inside and figured I could change her before we had our yogurt.

First of all, there was no changing table, but it wasn't my first rodeo with that issue, so I pulled out my massive changing pad and laid her down (seriously, get an extra large/padded changing pad because things like this come up!) So...this diaper was not good. Everything was everywhere and her shorts had poop on them too. Harper got shots on Thursday at her 15 month appointment and she almost always experiences this side effect for a couple of days after shots. Thankfully she always acts and eats normally despite this.

I had a change of clothes in my diaper bag�or so I thought. I had a 9 month size onesie in there and no other clothes were to be found. Where had they gone? Why was the onesie that was in there a 9 months size? So many questions, no answers.

I was definitely that mom this weekend. The one people probably side-eyed for letting their child out in public in a diaper. Thank God her top was a tunic-style because I think it created the illusion that she indeed did have some kind of bottoms on (or maybe I just told myself that).

After getting everything good and clean (using about 10 wipes�ugh), I washed our hands and we ordered an original and raspberry frozen yogurt mix with some kiwi.

(excuse me, I'm eating my froyo here...)

Wanting to buy some shorts for my bottom-less child, I realized that good ol' Old Navy was just down the road. "Perfect," I said to myself. "I will buy my child some new shorts and all of the things will be better again."

We got to the store and I wanted to make a beeline for the baby/toddler section, but Harper decided she wanted to interact with the mannequins. They do have some pretty cute pink hair bows in common.

Harper kept squirming out of my arms the entire time we were in the store and anytime I let her go she ran as though trying to escape police after robbing a bank. Oh this little one. I couldn't find any shorts in her size that I liked or that she didn't already have, go figure. So instead, I bought her this awesome vest.

| similar Old Navy vest here |

I mean, how could I NOT buy it after this reaction? Since we failed to find shorts at ON, we walked over to Carter's for round two. We didn't find shorts there, either, But we did find these adorable $5 t-shirts and a denim dress.