kate at the grocery store

I park the car and go to get Kate out. She's holding her Cinderella art pad and the special marker for it. I try to unbuckle her as she maintains a death grip on it, then take it out of her hands so I can get her out of the seat. You can color on the way home, I say, and she's OK with that.

(I should probably mention at this point that I had to work to talk her into wearing ordinary clothes for the store and not her Princess dress with a tiara and wand, which is the outfit of choice of late. She did wear it to Jack's pickup at school later that afternoon. I briefly considered my Spider-man outfit, but decided against it.)

We get the pricing gun, because she loves the pricing gun. I like it too, more or less, because the checkout line is a whole lot faster when everything has already been scanned. On the downside, we spend an epic amount of the time in the fruit and vegetable area, trying to weigh things and print out stickers and scan things and keep Kate from picking her lollipop stick up off the bottom of the cart, yes we went through the drive thru at the bank first and she had a lollipop at 10:30 in the morning, sue me.

Kate asked if we could go by the deli and get turkey. She likes to do this because the deli guy usually lets us try a slice, which she takes and greatly enjoys. If I make her a turkey sandwich at home, of course, she picks at it and barely touches the turkey, but I admit it does taste much better at the deli. So we got turkey.

Spent too much time picking out meat, leading to Kate wanting to ride in the cart. So I moved stuff out of the way, and put her in. Five minutes later she would want out. We cruised through the cereal aisle and she gestured wildly ("I LOVE this cereal! I LOVE that!") at every colorful cereal, most of which I'm fairly certain she has never tried. A similar story at the chips aisle. She saw Cheez balls and said, "I love those!" then remembered that Grandpa had brought buy a jug of Cheez balls the size of a Winnebago last weekend -- it will still be here when you visit, Robin.

Got Kate's yogurt, and she helpfully reminded me to get Jack's yogurt, which is different. Very thoughtful of her.

Checked out and headed home. Do you want a turkey sandwich when we get home Kate, I asked.

"No. Peanut butter and jelly."