18 May 2003

Shopping with Charles

Charles may not have the best language skills around for a child his age but there are some things he’s good at. He has quite a good sense of place and location. We popped out to the local WalMart today to pick up a few things. Charles knows about WalMart. It’s a place with cars. Not only that, Charles knows where the cars are (which is good for a two year old given the size of the store). The entire time we were shopping for food Charles was very energized, running around and giggling almost non-stop. I attributed it to his general high spirits but Mom informed me that I was sadly mistaken. She then performed an experiment – she turned the cart away from the path that lead to the toy car section. Charles immediately became distraught and began trying to turn the cart back to the good path. Once Mom was back on the straight and narrow Charles returned to his old bubbly self. Once we got to the toy car section Charles had Mom walk him back and forth across the display. He eventually settled on a Hot Wheels Big Dawg™.

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