The Drive Home

I had major shopping to do today.

Oh, hello by the way. Yes, it's been 5 years since I've last posted, but I thought I should post again sometime this year before Memorial Day. So..... yeah. On with the story....

Major shopping. I decided at the last minute to take Ethan with me on my shopping trip, but not before ordering him inside to change his holey jeans. They were practically torn in half! Not cute.

Our first stop was at Anthro to return some monogrammed mugs that I never gave as a gift. I ended up leaving with 5 new latte bowls....yes! Leaving with 5 bowls and a new wardrobe would've been even nicer, but money still is not growing on any of our trees (gosh darnit!) and I just bought some pieces at the new H&M store so I can't complain.

Ethan kept me entertained the entire time with about 11,000 questions ranging from "Why are we here?" to "Can I sign your name on the screen? Please? Pleeeeeeeeeze?"

"No, you can't....but....you can make a big ol' dot right after my name, cool?" And just like that his entire face lit up. Then just as one would expect from a little child who was given the opportunity to eat ice cream for breakfast, he shouted quite literally, "Yaaaaaaayy!"

It was cute. All the girls at Anthro thought so. Guess you had to be there.

So after Anthro and major pleading from Ethan to buy him a treat at AJ's, we stopped off Trader Joe's for Vodka sauce, yogurt, and cereal. I didn't buy the treat at AJ's, so I decided to let him try the chicken and spinach curry sample that I just knew he wasn't going to like. I even held out my napkin for him to spit into before he had the chance to ask himself.

I was secretly glad he didn't like it because I was starving and like I was really going to push my way past the masses that were crowded around the sample station just to get another for myself. I know, I know. I'm so mean.

So, I had a hungry child yet I still needed lentils and chicken.

I had one more stop and surely Ethan, this time I will get you something to eat.

Our last stop was Whole Foods and seriously, I could live there. They have clothes, food, water, all kinds of chocolate and every flavor of Ciao Bella sorbet. It's like grocery heaven. Or grocery orgasm. One or the other. Yikes. Is that sacrilegious to have those two sentences next to each other? But I love that store. And so does Ethan. Especially after he receives his pint of soup or "kid's pack" with a pb&j sandwich....like he did today.

I filled his tummy and he was happy. He felt better as we left the store with his plastic kid's pack in hand. He ate it in the car as we listened to the CD that we're all sick and tired of listening to.

Like, seriously - we're so over it.

I'll leave it at that and the proof of how over it we are. This was Ethan's conversation with Brett Dennen on the drive home:




"I can be the laughing stock, I can be the hoax, but I ain't gonna lose you..."

Ethan: Yes you are!

"Put me in a hole, a thousand times again, but I ain't gonna lose you...."

Ethan: I told you, you are gonna lose me! You just don't listen!!

"I'll sing it from my rooftop...."

Ethan: No you won't! Stop lying!

"I'll sing it from the bus stop...."

Ethan: But you won't! You can't!

"No I ain't, gonna lose you...."

Ethan: Stop saying that!!




Sigh....I love this kid. And he turns 6 at the end of the month! Holy moly!!!