The Castle Adventure

Today was one of those days I wanted to just bust with joy over these two little guys. We made it to Whole Foods (or The Castle according to Coop) to do a bit of grocery shopping. Bear is in his phase where he has absolutely NO desire to be in the cart and has the glint of mischief in his eyes as he runs just outside of the boundaries he’s given. So we get there and I need to use the restroom.

As soon as I get up Bear tries to take the plunger to the toilet and Coop delights in flushing the toilet for me. All of this is cracking me up until I catch Coop on his hands and knees looking under the stall door saying, “hi guys!” to a woman. EEEEEKK. I grab them and apologize and high tail it out of there. I ask Coop to hold Bear’s hand and lead me to the fruit. No joke the boys knew exactly where to go and led me there holding hands the whole way. Everyone just sort of parted down the middle for them it was so cute. We come up to the fruit and Coop stops and says, “Ohhhhhhh it’s beeeaaaauuuutiful.” He holds Bear’s hand through the whole produce section and everything I need on my list he knows where to go to get it. A Grandma stops me and says, “Whatever you fed them for breakfast today you feed that to them every day!”

We finish up in the produce section and I ask Coop to take us to the Kombucha aisle. He grabs Bear’s hand and they take off for the opposite end of the store again. There is a guy stocking the Kombucha and Coop stops at his knees and cheers, “Bucha bucha bucha!!” The guy is so charmed he gets us a case of the strawberry so we don’t have to bag it.

Get to the line and they see an open table. They make a beeline for it and just sit there waiting patiently for me to pay. I pay and we go to sit outside in the sun and to eat a banana. As soon as I pulled them out the boys BOTH put their hands in the air and cheered for the bananas. I think Bear’s words were something like, “Nana, nana, nana!!!!” They were just so excited and everyone was so tickled at their exuberance.

We head home with a quick stop to the bank and Bear is fast asleep snoring and even some drool coming down. Coop says, “Shhh momma Bear is sleeping.” We get home and Coop helps me carry the bags in and says, “Look momma I can do it!” I respond with how strong and helpful he is and as I put my bags down Coop says, “Good job momma you did it!”