Mr. Personality

I recently wrote this to a friend and thought it worth sharing....

Austin is extremely cute. He's becoming mr. personality of course as time goes on. Dad and I take him to Sam's and we'll be discussing something in an aisle and he'll walk a dozen feet away, turn around to look at us, make the vocal intonation of "Bye bye" without the actual words and wave at us...as in "I'm off now....I'm running away....good bye then.....thanks for all you've done, but I really must be going...... Then turn around and head off across the aisle "intersection", through the fruit section, past the soymilk department and over to the cut flowers and forklifts (of course) before he ever bothers to look for us. Then he'll see us standing forever away and practically choke with excitement while he does his little Egor run/walk back to us. Ummm, yeah, lots of the ladies at Sam's know Austin. We go there not to buy anything but bananas and strawberries or something just so he can push the wheelbarrows around, spin the hose cart wheels, squeal at the umbrellas and "bah!" at the fountain, balloons, vacuum cleaners and red "don't-back-into-the-freezer-section" posts.

It's great....plus, everything is in huge crate-size proportions so our biggest stress is not whether he's going to "help" take all the toothpaste boxes off of the lower shelf but rather playing interference so he doesn't get run over by some unsuspecting shopper who has a wee one dart out from behind the cracker section into their cart. It's a full-time job for sure!