We had a good day today. In the morning James and I ran some errands. He hasn't been doing very well in stores lately so I was prepared with the monkey. The monkey is his stuffed animal backpack/toddler leash. Some people don't look too kindly on the leash but its necessary. James doesn't like the shopping cart and sometimes he doesn't want to be carried so we need to let him run free. With the monkey he can only run so far :) So in the stores I was actually able to browse and then pay for items, keeping him close by. He really doesn't mind the monkey because it does give him some freedom.
James had a lot of fun in the dollar aisle at Target. We picked out a mailbox (!), a coloring book, and some notebooks! The mini notebooks are Hello Kitty but in a non-girly bright red and bright green. He is fascinated with notebooks because of Blue's Clues where the guy uses a notebook to write down the clues. James can now follow along with his own notebooks, though he's been using other things as his notebook- like my recipe binder. He's destroyed it with crayon markings, but oh well.
We are trying to watch less TV here. Its hard because James will beg for Blue's Clues. It takes a lot of work to distract him and entertain him, but hopefully the TV fascination will fade away.
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