Little Harry has gone through one of those rather sudden changes of late, and miraculously he has become rather good company to hang with. When I'm out with him he's no longer tearing off in the opposite direction and having an enormous paddy if made to come back, instead enjoying walking along with me and chatting away, helping me to do things.
He really loves going to the Supermarket now and walking along beside the trolley, helping me put things in, and helping me to pay at the end. Yesterday we went to a mall and instead of strapping him into his stroller I risked allowing him to walk. I wanted to go to one specific shop and as we approached it he noticed a giant fun looking play place for kids and said 'I want dif (this) way!!!' I told him that we could go there after we went in the shop that I wanted to go in and he said 'Okay' and happily trotted in alongside me. In the shop he behaved extremely well (only pulling 3 things off the shelves and turning off all the lights once) and then was rewarded by 45 mins in the play area which he loved. We then went back into the shop and he helped me buy some clothes for him, carrying them and saying 'new jamas!!" (trousers, but still!) He then escorted me to a nice cafe for lunch where we sat together and had soup and a roll. All in all, a rather nice date.
Posted by katie at January 30, 2007 12:11 PM