We only needed a few things . . . so we made it a family outing on one of the mornings Daniel goes in to work later.
First we stopped for coffee. I pushed Micah in the shopping cart over to a table near the Starbucks counter, as Mara followed. She saw Daniel was standing in line at the counter, so she asked to go see him. I said, “Okay, you can go stand in line with Daddy.”
She ran over to him, then turned to face the counter (like he was), and stepped into line, right in front of him. Then she stood ramrod straight facing the counter. It was very methodical–so cute!!
After getting coffee, Daniel took Mara and went to pick up some deodorant.
Apparently she remembered that I had bought shaving cream just a few days earlier at Target, so she exclaimed, “For Daddy’s legs!”
“No, Daddy doesn’t shave his legs,” Daniel said emphatically.
Next Mara felt her cheek, thinking it was for his beard–which she knew Daddy did shave!
“No, not for my beard–it’s deodorant,” he explained.
She lifted one hand and her face lit up, as she gripped her underarm with the other hand.
The other shoppers in the aisle were laughing . . . Every moment Mara is learning more and more about her world.