Enjoying Christmas Cards

Sorry for the blurry picture today . . . I was trying to capture Emily enjoying all the Christmas cards we've gotten in the mail. I LOVE getting Christmas cards and letters in the mail from everyone and Emily has been enjoying it as much as I do. She asks to hold the cards and walks around and looks at them and then spreads them out on the floor and asks me to "read" them . . . or tell her who the people are in the picture.
We went grocery shopping this morning and I always carry my grocery cart cover that Angela made for Emily. This keeps all the nasty cart germs away from Emily . . . especially since she always carries her milk and goldfish with her to pass the time at the grocery store. Well today for the first time she noticed the grocery cart with the big car in front and asked to ride in it. So I figured I might as well get used to trying to maneuver that HUGE cart around the store at some point . . . why not today. What I didn't realize was how GROSS these carts are . . . oh . . . my . . . word!!!! It looked like it had about 15 years of dirt on that thing. Luckily, the store has the Clorox wipes you can use, so I ran over and grabbed a couple and wiped as much down as I could . . . of course Emily had already climbed in so I was wondering the whole time if my efforts were in vain to keep all the germs off of her. Then I started thinking about the clorox that I was wiping all over the steering wheel that wasn't drying . . . and started getting phobic about what clorox would do to her skin . . . sigh! . . . I decided I might as well just get over it and start shopping. I just pray that she didn't catch the "epizutic" in that car. She was definitely more entertained today and I only hit the aisles with the cart 3 times : ) She was so quiet way down there that it was almost like shopping alone . . . a mother's dream! That ended when she saw the coupon dispensers on the aisles and started hollering for "Emily's coupons"! Can you tell I've used those to entertain as well : )