clean up on aisle 4.

bitty has been well, bitty. he's totally fine after his experience with croup. back to school and his normal self. tuesdays i am home with him. i truly do like running errands with him (call me crazy) but it gets us out of the house, we see and talk about new things, and i think it is important for him to know that sometimes you just have to run errands with your old lady.

so tuesday i load him up to head to michaels at traders point. i'm finding all the supplies i need and he was being pretty good. he wants in the cart. he wants out of the cart. he wants to walk. he wants me to carry him. he wants to lay in the aisle. he wants to carry around large plastic tubs he grabs off the shelf. thats all fine and i can deal with all of that and take it in stride. its finally time to go so we head to the front. there was only one cashier and about five people in line. he did pretty good waiting in line and then it was finally our turn. i had bought erin 12 little canisters she wanted me to hunt for. the cashier wasn't the quickest girl i had ever seen. I'm thinking in my head "its gonna take her all day to wrap up these canisters". miles was out of the cart at that point starting to get to the end of his rope. he's trying to push the cart around while i'm trying to hold it still so it doesn't run into things. i see him walk away from me, look over his shoulder, make eye contact with me, and push over a 5 or 6 ft. cardboard display of boxes of candy hearts. imagine 50 boxes of candy hearts all over the floor, blocking the aisle for anyone else to get in line. i whipped him around and told him no. then quickly finished paying. parked the cart, walked around to the employee picking them up, and insisted on her letting me do it. she wouldn't let me so i apologized profusely and got the heck out of there. it was my first truly embarrassing experience with him, and i don't feel like i get embarrassed easily. i know the people in line were thinking "why did she bring her kid to feed her craft addiction?"

haha, i'll laugh about it now. ben said if it was him he would have hyperventilated. actually i laughed on the way to the car but that kid is a stinker to the core. he knew it was wrong but just wanted to see what i was going to do to him.

turns out i gave him teddy grahams on the way home.....got me again. at least in my mind i feel like i had a valid and purposeful conversation with him about how he can't knock things over. in public. full of candy hearts. twice is size. with people watching......