Here is a chronology of the weekend. Henry was up early on Saturday (6:15). I gave up on trying to get him to fall back to sleep in our bed after about 25 minutes. So we got dressed and he and I went to breakfast at the Blues Diner on Main Street in Melrose. We were in "Kid Row" - a series of booths with 3 high chairs in a row. Of course Henry was the best looking, best behaved, most charming, and smartest baby on the block.
We then went to the grocery store where I wheeled him around in one of those "truck" carts that has a truck front on it where he sits with his own steering wheel. Once again we got lots of comments from the shoppers. However, trouble began after we left the store. I unloaded the groceries from the cart into the back of the car while Henry sat in the truck cart. I then wheeled him back to the store to drop off the cart. As I unbuckled him I saw it - the purloined candy bar. He had swiped a candy bar from the display while we were in the check out! Too ashamed to enter the store and fearing for a blemish on his clean record, I pocketed the evidence and drove out of the parking lot with my head low.
I discussed the incident with Joni later and she did not object when I said that crime should not pay and we needed to dispose of the hot goods. So we split the candy bar between the 2 of us, gave none to the thief, and tossed the wrapper.
Most of Saturday was spent packing belongings into blue bins and sorting hundreds of dollars in change into rolls. The day was complete along with 4 loads of laundry.
Sunday we went shopping and picked up more blue bins. We also went to a couple open houses, one of which was nice. It had a 2 car detached garage, fenced back yard, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, newer kitchen, partially finished basement, lots of wood trim, and good storage areas. It also had laundry hook-ups on the 2nd floor and what looks like a large, open, unfinished attic. The house is a 1926 colonial style. The house was in Reading, in a neighborhood north of the Gleason Road house.
That evening we continued to become more familiar with what is likely to be our new town. We ate at Cafe Capri, take-out pizza and Italian restaurant. I got a pasta dish with gemelli and grilled sausage in a light wine sauce. We also split a pizza with spinach and onion. Plenty of left-overs for lunch today. Henry enjoyed everything, as usual. He had pasta, sausage, mushrooms, and enjoyed chewing on the pizza crust.
His vocabulary is exploding. In fact he may have said "exploding". The pediatrician asked us last week what words he knows. We kept listing them until he stopped us and went on to the next question. He got a book about tractors at that visit. They give him a book each visit to encourage reading and vocabulary. It works. We bring books along with us when we go out and he read the tractor book at the restaurant. It is shaped like a tractor, too. His favorite books are a pair of flip books that have tabs on the pages that you lift up to see a picture underneath. For example, there may be a tab showing a chicken sitting on a nest with eggs. When you lift the tab, the chicken is standing with little chicklets and broken shells. Those books were gifts from his aunt Janie and cousin J.D.
I have to go check the fax. I just heard it printing. I am expecting stuff from the attorney for the P&S.
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