The Mall with Two boys and One Stroller Adventure

Yesterday, Lucas, Landon and I went to the Mall. My wife works every third weekend, and I have been trying to be better in getting them out the house. That being said, getting an infant and toddler fed, changed, and in the car can be daunting. It literally took me an hour to get them ready in the car. The ride there was good, Lucas for the most part is relaxed, but Landon who I call (Bonga from LionGuard) was screaming (Talking) the whole ride there.

When we got there I couldn’t find a parking spot.. I drove around a few times and only saw a couple spots all the way in the back... That’s when I made the decision. Valet it is... Even though it was $5.00 and I try to save (cheap) as much as I can. I just thought about the time and energy I would be saving, being right in the front compared to parking/walking all the way from the back. I put Landon in the stroller and Luke was walking with me. I’m not going to lie it was tough having both at the sametime, while being by myself. First thing I did was get Luke a snack to keep him busy/occupied. I got him a pretzel from Aunt Anne, can’t go wrong with bread LOL. We went to Lord & Taylor to return a couple items. We stopped in at Build a Bear workshop to see if Luke wanted a Teddy Bear, because that the thing to do with a 2yr old right!? We ended up buying one. I also wanted to take him to the Pet Store in the mall, Lucas loves dogs, and I do to as long as we don’t have one. He enjoyed it but we didn’t stay long maybe 10-15minutes tops. I got paranoid. Is that normal? There was a strong odor and Having my 5month in the stroller Landon just didn’t feel right. Was I being to protective there?

From there I wanted to take them to the kids plays section, I wanted them to see other kids. I wanted to see how Lucas was going to be. Was he going to be engaged, was he going to just hangout solo, or was he going to be tough on the other kids, not sharing and being defensive.

I took Lucas shoes off and he went sprinting to the play area. He first kind of just was looking at the slides and watching the kids go up and down and he decided to go for it. I’m not going to lie I had to keep the tears in.. For me at this point in my life seeing them grow and go through these life experiences means everything to me. Lucas was good for about 25-30min before he had his first episode.. There was a boy that ran by him to go up the slide and Lucas felt threatened when he ran towards him. So Lucas just started yelling and flaring his arms. As soon as I grabbed him Landon started crying ( of course always happens like that)at that point made a decision that I think it was time to wrap up our first solo adventure to the mall. It was tough, not going to lie but we had fun, sometimes people think everything is a snap of a fingers and it really isn’t. We took pictures and I hope one day when they get older they look at them and think they have one cool dad that really tried to be there/play, hangout, care for them as much as he could.


This is a clip of a father and his two kids trip to the Mall.. I related to this
https://youtu.be/FhpLAFyoSw8