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Ikea

Because I had to work on Sunday, today started a 5-day weekend for me. I haven't been to Ikea since I was VERY pregnant - I'm just over 32 weeks in the picture below (and yes, I was shopping in a wheelchair by this point in my pregnancy. It wasn't pretty).


As usual, I wanted to get S&Z out of the house this morning so Derek & I decided to head to Ikea. The kids were very happy when they saw the shoes and coats come out, and they waited patiently by the door to be loaded into the car.


Ikea is great because they have "family friendly" parking close to the door. They have these neat little carts parked nearby that worked great for us each to take a kid.


After doing some shopping, we had lunch in the Ikea cafeteria. S&Z love being out and watching all the people so they had a great time.




Once we were done eating, it was time to pack them up again and finish our shopping.


They were exhausted and provided each other lots of goofy entertainment while we waited to check out.




Our best purchase of the trip is definitely the tent we found. I have wanted a tent since we played in Sydney & Ivy's a few months ago. I figured it would be a great addition to our tunnel.


Derek set it up while they "napped" (another story entirely). I took some pictures of them checking it out once they got up!





Even Salvador wanted to come and see what the excitement was all about,


We heart Ikea, especially on a Thursday morning when it's not very busy :)
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