Here we are, two plus months into the Shorty being two and already I'm finding myself opting to stay home rather than venture out to run errands. Partly this is due to our recent move to the burbs and the fact that an errand now involves getting in the car to go anywhere, no more walking down the street to get places. Mostly, though, if I'm being honest, I'm staying home to avoid being seen in public with my two year old.
Girlfriend is HIGH energy these days. She's always been that way, I suppose, but when you mix it up with a huge yet moderately understandable vocabulary and the ability to leap small cracks in a single bound, you get a recipe for being thrown out of Stop and Shop.
Her newest thing is to yell "I wanna walk Mommy" and refuse to get into the cart/stroller/your arms. I've convinced her that she should be carried in parking lots rather than dart away from me "that too danerous mommy, too many cars for Ella," she'll say. However, once in the store she develops an incredible ability to lock her knees and stand in the cart while you nicely ask her to sit her toosh down.
Last weekend I gave in and let her 'walk'. Both parents were at the grocery store together and I figured we could divide and conquer with one keeping an eye on her and the other gathering food. Holy Jesus. I don't ever want to set foot in a grocery store again with a two year old. She ran. RAN up and down aisles. She hollered at the top of her lungs. She periodically stopped mid-aisle to have a dance party to whatever music was on the store muzak system. She whipped her hair back and forth and grabbed items off the shelf 'need dis mommy?'.
When forced to sit somewhere she doesn't want she pitches a fit that nothing can quell. So, today when I'd like to go to CVS and to the mall to do some errands, I find myself avoiding and staying home because I don't care to deal with the potential tantrums and hijinks.
Ahhh, I know this will pass, but til them, I'm seriously considering PeaPod.
