Eyes and Waldbaums

What a pair Brendan and I are. His stye is in one of those yucky phases where it's coming to a head and really nasty looking. My mom said today when he was brushing his teeth he was looking at his eye in the mirror and got upset when he looked at his eye. He kept telling her "Mommy will fix my eye." We've been putting hot compresses on it for months, but nada. Knock wood, it looks like the 4 different meds I'm taking are starting to get rid of my multiple eye infections. But I'm not exactly a looker right now. Think we can be cover models for an ophthamologist journal?






On a completely different note, I wanted to talk about Brendan's obsession with Waldbaums. Waldbaums is the supermarket that's closest to us. It's a quick walk, just a few blocks away. During the summers this had been one of my favorite places to take Brendan on really hot days when I needed to get out of the house but it was too hot to play outside. Brendan enjoyed walking around in the stroller, but for the last few months I don't make him go in the stroller or wagon in stores and ohmigoddess, is he obsessed with this store now. He loves to run, hop, jump and skip his way through the aisles. He knows each and every detail of all 17 aisles. We follow the same route each time. We look at the bananas, then go to bakery area where he has to stand up on the ledge and count how many smiley face cookies there are. Aisle 4 and aisle 5 are sometimes closed off and he has to check each time. In the aisle with the tomato sauce he has to comment on the Ragu ad on the floor. He has to check out and comment on every box of cereal. In the same aisle are the magazines where he has to grab a puzzle book to carry. One aisle has caribbean spices next to candles and each time we pass he says "What's this?" and I say "spices". Same things with the candles. And on and on. The same thing each time. And he always wants to go there. We'll go for a walk and he wants to head to Waldbaums. We're at the playground and he wants to stop there on the way home. We come after work and he wants to take a walk there. Tonight I asked him what his favorite place was and he told me Waldbaums. Maybe he could be their spokesperson?