Took the day off today to hang out with Olaia. She's a real treat. We went and ate pizza for lunch, then browsed clothes (didn't find any cute outfits for her, but I got some new jeans). Then she dragged me into the audio-visual department, took me by the arm and directed me emphatically over the DVD section. "Daddy!" she exclaimed, "Pokemon!!" What a smartie!! She knows what she likes. Next we headed over the commissary to do food shopping. She's in her "What's this?" phase, and I obliged her by trying to tell her what everything was. "That's dog food, Olaia. That's curry powder. That's a toilet brush."
"Toilet brush?" she repeated.
"Yes, toilet brush," I confirmed.
"Oh."
Olaia loves grapes. She calls them uvas (grapes in Spanish), so I got her some red seedless grapes which I placed in the cart. I turned my back for a second and her little hand was stuffing a handful into her mouth. I tried to scold her, but she smiled at me and waited to see if I would laugh... She won the stare-down and I cracked up. She kept this up throughout the store and everyone who saw it busted out laughing.
We came back and she helped me clean the refrigerator, car seats, and set roach traps. But I'll leave that tale for another day, my friends *G*.