We went to the grocery store today and I’ve again recommitted to not bring Isaak. He wanted to push his own cart and would barely let me touch it UNTIL he spotted gumdrops. Gumdrops. He ran down to the end of the aisle and tried to figure how to get them off the hook. I was relieved when I figured he couldn’t get them off. I told him he couldn’t have any, but that didn’t deter him-he kept tugging, so I in turn tugged him away. I was proud of myself and I thought I had a handle on the situation, then he looked up at me and said Please Mommy. I still said no. I’m made of steel right? We got about two aisles away and I set him back down so he could push his cart. He seemed resigned on the gumdrop idea, but I was WRONG! He darted back between my legs and grabbed unto those gumdrops and pulled with all his little boy might and the plastic broke! Down came the bag of gumdrops. Isaak was elated. He looked at me with the biggest smile on his face and placed them in the cart. I resigned. We broke the bag-we had to buy them…..at least he said please right? We did make him wait until we got to the car to eat them though--even though we had a full blown temper tantrum in the check out line when he saw me put them into the shopping bag. Cory had to pull him away. During this turmoil-Isaak apparently knocked the keys out of Cory’s hand and I didn’t notice, so when we got to the car we realized that we didn’t have any keys. I refused to take Isaak back inside. Cory luckily found the keys in about five minutes. Phew. But I’m sticking to my guns after this-No Isaak in the grocery store!!!!
Okay-so I'm feeling a little more confident today. I went to church and people saw me and nobody screamed. haha! I actually think that I like it-second day is usually always better, eh? It reminds me of a time on my mission when the same kind of thing happened. I said just un petit peu! (a little bit), but I came out with a whole new head of hair and I cried--you have to know that when you are on a mission everything seems worse than it really is and better than it really is-highs and lows=not so many inbetweens. So enough of this blabbing--I'm posting some pictures. So this is what I imagined I might have looked like yesterday when I looked in the mirror--thinking what have I done!!!! Me today thinking--hey I think I like it. I can actually smile about it today. Isaak in the cutest hat ever-sorry the lighting is kind of bad, but it was cloudy and darker than usual, but isn't he just the cutest ever? I love him in this outfit. I would have him wear it every day so I could l...
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That little Isaak of yours can be quite the handful. I am willing to bet going to the store with him is similar to going to the store with a dozen kids! I don't know if I am allowed to tell you this BUT my parents had 8 kids and ever since they met Isaak they will ask me how he is doing followed up with a comment about how much energy he has. My dad is convinced that Isaak has more energy than any child he has ever met.
Good news is, Isaak is pretty much the cutest kid ever.... seriously! If I were there, I would watch him and then you could go do the grocery shopping for the both of us! Ha ha ha ha :)