When I'm trying to get us ready to go out somewhere, I often find myself thinking of the old riddle of how you get a hen, cat, and corn across the river when you can only take one at a time. The hen will eat the corn, the cat will eat the hen... so how do you do it?
Except in this case you're trying to get two kids and a bunch of stuff downstairs and into the car to go out. You can't leave the toddler with the infant while putting stuff in the car because although the elder is very sweet with the younger, you just never know (like when he tried to turn the car seat over with the younger one inside).
And you can't leave the elder inside while you put the infant in the car, because you can come back to find him splashing happily in the toilet with the toilet brush; taking his milk out of the refrigerator, "Mommy, I got the cap off"; or scribbling happily on the floor.
The solution, of course, is to put the elder in the car first so he's strapped down, then deal with putting the accoutrements and infant in the car after that - but it did take me a while to come to that!
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These are the kinds of puzzles I've dealt with for 2 years, lol. Now I usually do both kids at once, then go back for all the stuff.
Taking notes! We're not there yet, but maybe someday.
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