What is that, what is that thing...???

It's been awhile since I posted a Harper story (which in turn usually turns into an Adeline story too!). Last weekend, my wonderful hubby took us girls to IKEA to look at furniture for our new town home and then we went to Nordstrom's. I love Nordstrom's, especially for shoes. We had a specific agenda-one pair of shoes for each girl. It was lunch time so we wanted to get in and out as fast as possible. I had an idea of what I wanted so that helped. We were in the middle of potty training (note the word "were"-we have decided to put it off, it wasn't going well-another blog post, another day) so as soon as we got to the children's shoe department, Adeline started doing the 'potty dance' and started screaming "potty, potty, potty" so her and I ran to the bathroom. After the bathroom, I arrived to Harper jumping, yes people jumping, in a chair waiting to be helped in Nordstrom's. Finally, we got some help from a nice lady. A lady with a piercing, a piercing between her lip and nose, a piercing between her lip and nose that was very large. So the nice saleswoman started to try and size the girls feet. Harper stood up first, stood in the poor lady's face and said "what's that?", pointing (about 2 inches from her face), "what's that thing?" "right there?" "what is that?" Cue Adeline "that?" touching the piercing, "what that?" Picture this-both girls are in her face, almost touching the piercing, asking a million questions. Peter and I literally stared at each other, not moving. Finally, we got the girls to move back and the nice lady said "it's a piercing" and stood up to go get some shoes. Harper then asked me "what's a piercing?" I came up with an answer that went something like this "sometimes people pierce their ears and some people pierce other body parts."

Long story short, I knew the lady got commission on the shoes we bought so we ended up with 4 pair of shoes. Thanks Peter for being a good sport and letting me spend a little extra money that day to make me feel better about what the girls did.