babies r us...fail!

So last week I NEEDED to get out of the house. The hubby was about to come home in an hour, but I couldn't wait for him to watch E. I just had an urge to get out. Cabin fever I guess. Baby E seemed to be in a good mood so I said why not? I had to go to Babies R Us, so this would be the perfect time. Well, I should've realized when E started crying 5 minutes into the drive that this trip was going to be hard. However I was determined to still go! I thought, "Once she gets in the stroller and starts moving around, E will love this outing too!"

Yeah that lasted for about 10 minutes. She didn't mind while I looked at bottles as long as I kept moving the stroller back and forth. She enjoyed being in the shoe section while I tried to figure out what size shoe she was. Then it happened....the silent wide opened mouth..5-4-3-2-1...then the CRYING!! I tried to stroll her back and forth - nope. I tried to use the soothie pacifier - nope. Oh maybe she's hungry! I debated on going home to feed her, since the thought of using the public nursing room kinda grossed out the germaphobe in me. But my need to stay out won over and I decided to give the Babies R Us mommy room a chance. Despite all the stains I saw on all the seats, I sucked it up and tried to breastfeed baby E. She was NOT having it! Then I tried to give her a bottle. But since it was in the cooler, the milk was way too cold for E. Man, she was screaming her lungs out! I was afraid a worker would come in thinking that I was being a bad mommy. E started to calm down a little bit. And I mean a teansy weensy bit. So right then I said, "Okay let's go home now, you win."

Then what do you know, I step out of the mommy room and start strolling E and she calms down. And well you can guess what's next right? I thought she was going to be calm again. So instead of leaving like I said, I decided to go back to check out the bottles again since that's why we had come in the first place. Mistake! Right when I got there she started to cry again. Like seriously wail. Put the soothie in her mouth and she calmed down, but every time it fell out she'd cry. Sooooo I had to keep my finger in the soothie the whole way out to the car. And even putting her in the car she was crying. Needless to say, I felt horrible=(. The whole car ride (which was less than 10 minutes) back home E was crying her lungs out. All I could do was try to sing, play soft music, talk to E, anything to try to calm her. 

Got home maybe 10 minutes before hubby did and had E, all red around the eyes from crying, feeding and calm. Guess I better not take E out until she's fast asleep next time. Lesson learned.