Today was such a fun day! Last fall, Ms. Liz and I strapped the babies to our bodies and ventured out to Wheaton for a great consignment sale called Best Brands Resale (www.bestbrandsresale.com). It’s a madhouse, let me tell you….women elbowing each other for baby bargains. We had so much fun last time that when I received the email about their spring sale, I forwarded it on to see if we might go again, the challenge being the girls are obviously too big to strap to our persons. Luckily, our dear friend Ms. Heather agreed to not only drive us out there, but stay in the car with the girls while we hunted. So sweet is this friend, that she played kid’s music the whole way and back and had to listen to Charlie scream and generally be on her worst behavior. Why is Charlie being a little pill, you might ask? I think the answer is: Just because she can, and wants to be.After the sale, in which I came away with a little bit lighter wallet, we managed a hurried lunch at The Olive Garden. I am fortunate to lunch with mom’s who have it together, or at least have a few tricks up their sleeves…right at the point I thought Charlie might spontaneously combust, Ms. Liz pulled out the Dum-Dum suckers. Now, Charlie has never had one of these. Not for any particular reason except that I have none in the house…but not until now do I realize the magic power of the sucker. As you can see, it looks like C is about to turn into a blueberry, a.k.a. Violet Beauregarde from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”…and it took me forever to get the sticky goo off of her fingers, but man, if it didn’t do the trick. Pure magic!!