Every year I like to take the kids (well, before this year, it was KID) to an apple orchard and take some natural pictures of him picking and eating apples. I love the look of apple trees, I love how Zech eats them, I love the coloring... BUT NO! this year I can't find an orchard close that won't charge $25 to pick, or that even lets you pick your own. So, we went to walmart, bought a basket (which we will take back since we hardly used it!) and some mongo apples. I took the kids to a park and sat them in the yard with 4 apples. Zech began to eat two. One in each hand, alternating apples to bite. Lily tried, but has no teeth, so she just pretended. The lighting was great, the behaviors were compliant, and I think I got pretty good staged pictures.
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Here's the Zech story of the week.
He's trucking around walmart carrying this basket. He's about 2 steps behind me reminding me "I'm coming, Mommy!" He walks past a woman in a wheel chair. I stop to see his reaction, hoping its a great one. He passes her and immediately says "Oh, Sorry!" He does it on occasion. Not really touching or bumping into anyone, but apologizes for just passing them (something he gets from his OMA!). He continues to apologize over and over again. They keep telling him that they are okay. Then he proceeds to ask the lady in the wheelchair, very sweetly with his head cocked to the side, "Are you Okay?". They reassured him they were and I hurried him along.
We make it to the apples and the previous couple follows me to compliment me on my VERY polite little boy. She says "I didn't even feel him bump into my chair." (Which he didn't. he's just odd that way! Apologizes for everything) But she continued to tell me how wonderfully polite my baby boy was... made me proud all the same... bump or not!
Then to top off my cute Zech... when we get to the check out, Zech has a nectarine, 3 greenbeans from the produce isle, 2 candybars and some batteries in his little basket. He'd gone shopping! I put everything to the side as he scanned all my items at the self check out. he is very good at it. Scans it, puts it in the basket and when he's all done, checks the bottom of the cart as it tells you to, and then presses the paynow button. Then he's gone! he he!
He's just priceless!
