What The What?

My new favorite saying is "what the what?". It is from the tv show 30 Rock. I use it when I walk into a room and chaos has ensued...so you can imagine that I use it a lot. I used that phrase about 987 times today! The kids were nuts. They must still not be fully recovered from our trip to Canada. It became apparent that were were going to have a rough morning as soon as we loaded everyone up in the van to go to the park followed by Costco. There were only two baby swings at the park and nobody wanted to ride with two people in a swing so all the kids yelled and screamed until we said that nobody was using the swings. Then Jonah snuck up behind John and got into the diaper bag and dumped my suntan lotion all over the picnic table while John tried unsuccessfully to keep Shane from crying. Finally Wyatt took off toward the parking lot and wouldn't stop running until John tackled him. So we loaded them all up and brought the kids to Costco to give the employees a little glimpse into Hell. Everybody was yelling because nobody wanted to hold our hands on the way into the store, everybody wanted to hold the Costco card, then nobody would stay in the cart, and then they were all starving. They wanted to climb on the display swing set, listen to the music on the cd display, and were still starving. John finally took the entire cart to the back of the store and spanked Wyatt (who was the loudest by far) and forbade everybody from making a sound. They had to sit in the cart without talking for the rest of the shopping trip. They were quiet for about 15 minutes after that. It was great! The checkout people thought that they were just so cute and sweet. They waited until we got back to the van to continue the torture. Everybody fought over sitting in the same car seat, nobody wanted to buckle in, Wyatt suddenly forgot how to buckle himself in, the Dora video wasn't playing loud enough to hear over Shane's screaming, and the kids were really really hungry. We managed to get them all fed, changed, and in bed for naps in record time! Then John and I sat down on the couch, looked at each other and said "what the what?"