... which may or may not be a good thing.
Yesterday we went to the zoo. As it was designed to be a quiet, stress-free day, we did not worry about things like strollers or cameras or strategic support systems. We just walked around the zoo while you ran back and forth, looking around.
And it was a great day.
I’m not sure what the high point of your day was. You seemed to really enjoy the cotton candy, and you liked the lunch we got at Whole Foods, while you were generally unimpressed by most of the animals.
You really seemed to like the small sink in the bathroom that was just at your height so that you could wash your hands without help from anyone.
And you did find a backpack at the gift shop that had a giraffe swaddled on the outside in an easy-to-carry fashion.
My favorite part of the day was the part where you surprised the heck out of your mother and I. It occurred during the afore-mentioned lunch from Whole Foods. We had purchased a small can of juice for you to have as a drink, which you happily started to gulp down before you got distracted by your food.
As is customary when you have access to a full drink, your mother and I commandeered your juice so that you did not spill it. And, looking towards making our life easier, I drank some so that the juice was not quite so easy to spill. This is something we have done numerous times to prevent spills and messes. It is, at this point, standard operating procedure.
You, being distracted by your miniature corn, tomatoes, and carrots, did not see me drink any. In fact, several minutes passed before you even noticed that we had appropriated your drink.
When you did finally notice that your drink had moved you politely asked for it back, which I obligingly handed back to you. You took it from me, started to tip it back to have a drink and stopped and said “Hey, someone took some of my drink.”
And let me say, while I sometimes write down what you say more clearly than you actually say it, this is not one of those times. You clearly said “Hey, someone took some of my drink” without lisp, stutter, or a cute speech impediment.
Standard operating procedure may have to be adjusted.
