Reasons we lose sippy cups and constantly have to go out and buy new ones:
*They roll out of the car or under the seats where whatever is in them spoils and molds
*They get left at Mimi's or Nana's or Grumps' house. Or whoever else we visit.
*They roll under the coach and into some sort of third dimension where they become one with the cat and dog hair
*Wyatt hurls them to the bears at Maymont.
Talk about embarassing. There were probably 20 or so people standing around enjoying the bears on a Sunday morning. Suddenly something green goes whizzing past my head and I hear Chris shout out "SHIT" loud enough for all the children to hear. Yep. That's our sippy cup in the bear pit. And there go the bears after it. People are whipping out their cameras, pointing and shouting. And of course the mother next to me turns to me with a sickly sweet and concerned, yet subtly hostile, voice and says "I think you should tell somebody, I'm worried the plastic might get in their bellies and hurt them." Yeah lady. My chocolate lab has eaten MUCH worse than that and he's fine. But of course, we feel guilty. In case you don't live in Richmond, the bears at Maymont are a bit of a touchy subject.
We slowly backed away from the bear area and then got the hell out of there. Just what we need-to kill the new bears with an errant sippy cup and end up on the six o'clock news as vilified as the last dumbass parents.
And yes we DID wander around until we found someone official and alerted them to the sippy cup situation-and the fact that Chris may have scarred all the children. She assured us that much worse had happened before and the bears would be fine. Whew.
1 comment:
OMG! Those poor Maymont bears. That is hilarious. My friend Kelli has sippy cup tethers that attach to the stroller. I think she got them at BRU, if you're interested.
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