Tuesday, March 16, 2010

And the winner for worst mommy moment of the day is....

ME! I feel so bad about this. I know it was an accident and luckily nothing bad happened but I still feel awful. I went to Target this morning and I put Farrah in her carseat inside of the cart. (not sitting on top of the child seat part, but down in the cart). They were doing some renovations at our Target and it was super hot in there. I noticed Farrah was acting funny, started to make faces and noises of discomfort and all of a sudden she turned beat red so I quickly undid her buckles and grabbed her out of her car seat, took off her little jacket and stared at her to make sure she was ok. I think she just got over heated. I carried her around for a while because I didn't want her to get too hot again but after a while it's hard to carry a wobbly baby and push a cart at the same time so I set her back down in her carseat. Didn't buckle her in just set her on top so she had some wiggle room and hopefully wouldn't overheat again. So I finish my shopping and we leave. I decide I need a Starbucks so we drive off to Starbucks which, luckily, was in the same parking lot. I get to the drive through line when I finally realize I never buckled Farrah into her carseat! She's just laying in there hanging out totally unrestrained which is kind of the point of the car seat. I jumped out of the car in the drive through line and ran over to her side and buckled her in. Obviously she was unaware as to what just transpired but I felt awful!
I've had several mommy moments up until this point but this takes the cake. I know most might say it's no big deal, but I could never live with myself if something had happened. I really need to get this mommy brain thing under control. No pictures for today... just had to confess my sins. Off to hold my baby tight!

2 comments:

  1. Don't feel bad, I did the same thing when Chloe was like 2 months old, she had her blanket covering her and we drove all the way home without realizing it.

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  2. Glad to know I'm not the only one! My hubbs was surprised I would post such a thing on here but I knew the people who read this blog wouldn't judge ;)

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