Today was a mommy/Figgy day and I have to say, he's such a trooper for being 2 1/2. This morning's task: buy a new microwave. Because that sounds like the most fun you can have with a toddler, right? I'm starting to sense a theme here, with me having to drag him to the work events the other day.
Anyway, we drove to the big box home improvement store (of course after me "researching" microwaves online) and much to his delight, they had a shopping cart shaped like a race car. I knew from that moment it would be a great trip. He "drove" us through the store yelling "look at those tractors mommmmmmmyyyyy!!!!!!! Tractors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (aka lawnmowers) And when we got to the appliance section, the kid damn near lost his mind. I've never seen a kid get so excited about washing machines, ovens and microwaves. He was even making the store staff crack up. Needless to say, we picked out a replacement in about 15 minutes and were on our way.
Next up, food shopping. No car shaped carts there but you'd think we went to the moon or something by his reaction to pretty much every item on the shelf. And because we were pretty much bringing the average age down from ohhhh 80 years old (I wish I was exaggerating...), EVERY SINGLE PERSON had to stop and talk to him. Which he was like oh yeah, I'm all that. He entertained the masses by singing his ABC's and making up songs about milk. At one point I said to him, I guess they all want to talk to you cause you're cute. He responded with a resounding, "I surrrrrrreee am mommy. I am sooooooooooooo cute!" How can I get aggrivated shopping with THAT?!
It was fun seeing him get so excited about the little things. As adults we often overlook everyday "stuff" that we take for granted. Like the "Big Blue Bug," Nibbles Woodaway on Rt. 95 in Providence,(Figgy waved as fast as he could yelling hiiiiiiiiii Nibbles!!!! Take care of the carssssss Nibbles!!!!!!!!!!). Or the 5,000,000 vehicles we passed on the road (he made sure to point out specifically concrete trucks, dump trucks, garbage trucks, buses, diggers, firetrucks, police cars...shall I go on?). Or the birds flying (did you see 'em mommy? Geese mommy! Hungry geese! Looking for worms!). I could keep going, but you get my point. It's nice to take a step back every once in a while and look around. You never know what you might miss if you don't.
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