Shopping

Yeah, I'm that mom.
Caden and I love our trips to Target we seem to take about once a week. We wander from aisle to aisle, and Caden loves seeing everything and everyone around him. He makes new friends (we always get stopped with comments on how cute he is (yeah, Im bragging; what?!), what a good baby he is, and people trying to guess how old he is (I get everything from 4 months to 18 months. Some people are really bad at that game, myself included). He hardly ever gets fussy while we are there. I usally end up buying baby food there since its cheaper than the grocery store or Whole Foods, and since we usually are in need of some. But I usually do such a good job at not getting tempted at buying any toys for Caden. Notice the "usually" in that sentence. We have been lucky enough so far to not have had to buy that many toys for Caden--he's gotten so many as gifts or hand me downs that we've been set. Grammie Kathy even occassionally shows up with a new little toy when she comes to babysit weekly, so really, we've been blessed.
Wednesday, we were wandering down the baby toy aisle (mistake #1), and I saw this cute little bath toy tug boat on sale. It even came with little sea creature animals including an octopus, which I've declared as one of Caden's favorite animals. (Ok, so maybe there are just more legs for him to chew on on his little octopus stuffed animal that he loves). So, I innocently took it off the shelf to look at it. Then Caden started waving his arms, and screaming with excitement...so I let him take a look at it. And of course, he wanted it...(see picture above) Ok so he didn't SAY he wanted it, but look at that face. He is pretty much saying "Pleeeeaase?" (As Jon pointed out when I told him this story, "He's a baby--if you put anything in his hands, he "wants" it. You are such a sucker.") I took a picture of him with my phone, sent it to Jon, asking "Pllllease?".
You can guess what happened next. Caden is chewing on his new octopus as we speak. See? Hours of fun in the bath AND out. Yes I'm still justifying...:-)

DISCLAIMER: While Caden is a blessed child and has more than he needs, I do not typically buy him whatever he wants. However, I do believe in splurging and spoiling once in a while. Had Caden screamed when I took it out of his hands, it would not have made it home with us. But, being it was a shot day, he was looking so adorable, and well, I just darn felt like it, Caden got a new toy. Ok, I am officially done justifying.