Oh, Porter.

Well.... it's that time of year when Brandon goes on his "man trip" with my dad to the National Wrestling Tourney. He left this morning: destination Omaha, NE. He's only gone for 5 days, but those 5 days are long enough for me! I can't wait for Sunday night! We miss you already, Daddy!

Anyways, for these 5 days, I wanted to plan some fun things to do to help pass the time, and keep us all happy. Today, we had a FULL house of boys! 6 to be exact! My two, a little guy I just started watching, and 3 other little ones from my ward. That means 6 boys 4 1/2 yrs and under, including a 4 mo. old baby!!! It was a crazy time, but so fun for my boys to have so many friends to play with! We made shamrock cookies to celebrate St. Patty's Day, which they all loved!

When everyone went home and the house was quiet, I decided to take Porter & Hudson to Baja Fresh for dinner. They were giving Facebook Fans a free burrito today if you were wearing green. I thought about getting the food to-go, but decided to just eat it there. It was something to help pass the time. I am normally not that excited to take the boys out to eat.... especially by myself... because they have a hard time sitting still long enough to eat, let alone to let me eat. I knew my risks, but decided to go for it. Besides, if they are ever going to learn restaurant manners, I have to give them the opportunities to practice.

Things were going well, almost too well, I remember thinking. I was able to eat what I wanted (I was not too impressed with the food), and Porter and Hudson were eating, too! There was a little bit of rice on the floor b/c Hudson insisted on feeding himself, but if that was all I had to deal with, I thought that wasn't too bad considering I was the only adult with 2 toddlers at a restaurant. We had been there about 45 min. and we were wrapping up eating.

*Side note about Porter: those of you that know him, know that he is a wiggle worm and doesn't like to sit still.

Porter had been wiggling on his chair the whole time he was eating, but I didn't say anything, because a) he was eating his food, and b) he was staying on the chair instead of wanting to get down and run around. The next thing I know, in slow motion, I see Porter going down. He was falling in between 2 chairs, and as he is falling, his arms are trying desperately to find something to hang on to, to save his fall.... Unfortunately, the only things he found are the two food trays.

Once again, in slow motion, I see food flying through the air. Chips and apple sauce, and ranch dressing, and salsa, and rice..... and that's when I wanted to be invisible. But of course I couldn't, because the incident totally scared Porter (and made him feel really bad. He tells me later: "I'm sorry, mom. I didn't mean to.") AND it freaked Hudson out, too, so they were BOTH crying.

So, what do I do? The only thing I could do. Without making eye contact with anyone (and secretly praying that the flying applesauce and ranch didn't land on the people sitting right next to us), I clean up the best I can with what napkins I had ( I was not about to cross the entire room to get more), wipe up ourselves as best as possible (we were all covered in applesauce and ranch), and get out of there as fast as possible! It was a good thing that I wasn't very impressed with the food, b/c we will NOT be going to that Baja Fresh for a LONG TIME!

*I want to add that I love my little guys so much and would not trade these "incidents" for anything, as mortifying as they can be! They're character-building, right?


**AND I promise I'm not ignoring those of you that have asked me how I coupon. I really am planning on doing a post on it (not that I am an expert in any sense of the word), but I am too tired and just want to veg right now, so it's going to have to wait 'till another day. Maybe I'll get it done tomorrow if I have a better day than today. Let's all hope for that! :)