May 21, 2011

Saturday:

Annabelle woke up in a good mood, after I made Liam's oatmeal, I made her a bottle. She was rather disinterested in her milk, and repeatedly gravitated to the dog food bowl. Liam did the same when he started crawling. Also, they are lured to the greasy sliding glass door track. I used to simply re-route Liam, and he found something else to go after. Not Annabelle. She will turn 180 degrees and attempt to return to her last mission. I managed to find her something else to interest her while Liam finished his breakfast. Later in the afternoon, Annabelle wanted to play with Liam's car. It is a bit big for her and she pulled it over on herself several times. It was after the third rollover that I decided we needed to get out of the house (Liam wasn't too excited about her playing with his car, either). We went to the grocery store. I am hesitant to wrap Annabelle, as it seems to draw attention and I prefer to be anonymous and covert in public so as to have as little unsolicited interaction as possible. Thus I carried her car seat in, placing it inside the shopping cart. I grabbed a frozen pizza and some produce, as well as wheat berries. Liam was very excited when we arrived at the checkstand so I had to keep telling him to hold my hand as I distractedly placed my items on the conveyer. The cashier politely inquired as to whether I wished to purchase the bag of wheat berries lodged in the shopping cart partly hidden by Annabelle's car seat. I replied that I did and was terribly embarrassed, as so far only Ruth has managed to involuntarily commit petty larceny on at least two occasions. Meanwhile, Liam continued to run about and Annabelle looked on at the entire episode with a sleepy disinterest. I determined by her wailing on the way home that she was still hungry after gulping her previous bottle, so I gave her a banana. She donated part of the banana to the fruit flies by placing it on the floor. Without thinking, I tossed it in Honey's food bowl thinking that the dog would enjoy the treat (Ruth reminded me later that Honey doesn't like bananas). I stepped away to wash dishes and heard silence. I peeked over the counter and of course both Liam and Annabelle looked with awe and desire at Honey's food bowl with the banana in it. I decided that since Annabelle wore as much of the banana as she ate that I would bathe her and Liam that evening. After baths, I read to Liam and put Annabelle to bed.