Choose your battles

Anyway of you with young kids, especially those of the strong-willed variety, have probably discovered like I have the wisdom in the words, "choose your battles".  One day this week, I needed to go to the store as we were having a crowd over and I told Naomi and Maddie they could go with me.  They are not yet old enough to realize that going to the grocery store is NOT a treat, something Abbey has already discovered!!  Anyway, when Naomi got dressed and presented herself as ready to go, I decided this was a battle that I was not going to fight.  The hat, she explained, was because she is pinkalicious (as if I should even wonder otherwise), and the gloves were to keep her hands from getting cold in the very chilly store.  Sounds like four year old logic to me!  So off we went to the store with Jason simply shaking his head behind us that I would subject myself to even more stares than we already attract as foreigners.  My explanation?  Naomi was thrilled, and this was a battle not worth fighting...

(and yes, in case you wondered, she always oozes with personality...)

She loves that they have kid carts available..

Here we are in the checkout line.  Yep, the gloves and hat stayed on the whole trip- one of my prerequisites for allowing her to go like that...