New Milestone

We reached a new milestone today :) It's called Kenadie went to the grocery store for the last time... or at least for a while anyway :) For as long as Kenadie has been being my Wal-Mart helper, I have always taken extra measures to make sure she stayed as happy as possible while we shopped. She has been faithfully going with me since she could sit up, so around 6 months. There was a time when going to Wal-Mart was one of her favorite places to go. Not because she got a treat or anything, but because she was just content and happy to be there looking at EVERYTHING.

When she started to talk pretty well, around 14 months, she would name as many items as she could and was the MOST friendly little thing, not letting a single person walk by us without saying "hey" or "me five". "Me five" meaning she wanted to give them "5". Needless to say, it was at this stage that we seemed to almost never make it out of the store because we had to talk to EVERYONE :)

Well, at 20 months now, we are at a new stage and Wal-Mart is no longer fun for us :( It makes me a little sad that in just a short time of her life, what was once a fun activity for us, is now, hmmm... how should I put this... well, torture :) haha. It's not that she makes a scene or is ugly tempered or anything, it's just that she could not be less content. I really wish I had a "farewell Wal-Mart" picture of Kenadie today as she was jumping in the buggy, announcing "I jumping, I jumping" as I unloaded groceries onto the counter.

I look forward to Kenadie joining me again as my grocery helper when this stage passes, but for now, if you see us in Wal-Mart just know that it must have been an emergency :)