Little to Report

Not much to report. As you can see from the pictures in the previous post, Calum has learned to snap his fingers and do a strange half wing like thing when he dances. Dakota said he does his own version of the sprinkler dance. He holds his arm out and points round in a circle. He also likes to twirl about and bop his head. Every day I marvel at just how funny he is. He loves to make us laugh and very much likes to be the centre of attention.

I'm having some quiet times at work at the moment so I'm working on my new proposal and doing some paperwork today. The day passes so quickly anyway. Before I know it I will be on my way up to see Calum and the gang at daycare. Don and I have started looking for a new home - we have to move at the end of July. We aren't looking forward to the move at all. We've got entirely too much stuff to pack up. Maybe we should go for a minimalist look and turf half of it.

We went grocery shopping last night and I resorted to doing something I never do. Calum was sitting in the cart very nicely till we got to the cookie aisle. He saw his favorite bag of cookies and I picked one up and put it in the cart. As soon as he knew we had it he kept trying to get at it and started whimpering for "this". "This" is his word for anything he wants right now. After trying to distract him I gave in and opened the package and gave him a cookie. I was tempted to go pay for the bag right away but one look at the lines told me to wait. As if that wasn't bad enough, he ate half the cookie then immediately threw it down when Don put a bag of popcorn twists in the cart. We spent the rest of the shopping trip listening to his cries for "This, this". I opened it up for him when we got to the car and he happily shoved handful after handful into his mouth all the way home.

Lesson learned, make absolutely sure the little one is not hungry before going grocery shopping and leave the snack aisles for last. The funny thing is it doesn't get any better as they get older. Dakota is apt to tell us she's starving just as we start shopping. They get more alike every day.