Sweet Little Old Men

This morning Isabella and I ran a few errands while Gianna & Evangeline had some Lola time

(Lola = my mom = best mom/Lola evaaaa).

We stopped to pick up a few things at Sam's Club, and the cutest old man asked me to help him find the boneless skinless chicken breasts.

His wife got mad at him last time because he brought home the wrong ones.

He was really looking for chicken breast tenderloins - silly!

"Those are way too big!" - he said about the ones he thought he wanted.

While we were looking at all the chicken, Isabella felt the need to inform the nice man of my name.  

Gace!  Gace!  Hey, Gace!  Hey, man!  Hey, Gace!

Everyone also knows what Isa's favorite thing at Sam's Club is

because as soon as we checked out she proclaimed,

 Petzel!  Petzel!  Petzel!

Anyway, we see Cute Old Man again as I'm putting all of our stuff into the van.

GRACE

So now you know which ones to get!

ISABELLA
Hey, man!

CUTE OLD MAN

 I got all the way home last time, and my wife says, "Those are the wrong ones!"

GRACE

Well, now you have the right ones.

ISABELLA
Petzel, peeeeeeeeeease!

CUTE OLD MAN

That's a lot of milk - what are you gonna do with all that milk?

GRACE

We have four daughters - we'll drink it all.

CUTE OLD MAN

Four girls?!?  That's one, two - five gallons.

GRACE

No, it's only four gallons - and some juice.

CUTE OLD MAN 

How long will that last you?

GRACE

A week.

CUTE OLD MAN

(laughing)

I'm glad all my kids are grown up and gone!

ISABELLA
Gace!  Petzel!  Pease!

CUTE OLD MAN

How old are your girls?

GRACE

Seven, four - this one's two, and three months.

CUTE OLD MAN

Wow.  You need a boy.

GRACE

Nope, we have a boy dog...and my husband.

CUTE OLD MAN 

(laughing)

Ok, well you have a good day.

GRACE

You, too!

ISABELLA

Bye, man!  Petzel, mommy!

SO because we all like lists (I mean - that's normal, right??):

1)  Lola is the best ever!

2) Little old men are cute when they want to have nice conversations

and are not the grumpy, creepy sort.

3) Isabella likes Sam's Club and loves pretzels.

4) Isabella likes to talk like her momma.

and last, but certainly not least -

with regards to having more children out of my body

5) ...done and done.

I really wanted to take a picture of Cute Old Man with my phone - even one with Cute Old Man AND Isabella, but I feel that might put me at creeper status - and we don't want that!

Instead, here's a picture of Isabella with her Sam's Club booty (AKA the coveted salted pretzel)

and what running errands in the morning does to Isabella in the afternoon.

Happy Monday!