Checking Out and the 5-Hour Energy Drink

Isn't he just the picture of innocence and sweetness?

Taking Graeme to the store is always an adventure. He is a great shopping companion and sits in the cart pretty well through the whole experience. Getting through checkout is the true adventure. He loves the impulse buy items around the registers as it is a narrow space (especially at Wal-art where the cart and a person cannot fit side by side) and things are just his size. Today, for example, he tried reaching for a mini can of butene. He then kicked off a shoe which a very nice gentlemen picked up for me (being ready to pop with his little brother, bending is getting more impossible everyday). Next, we passed the soda cooler which he REALLY wanted to open. Gift cards were next, but thankfully able to angle him a bit so that they were out of reach. There are the buttons on the credit card machine which are so much fun to push. Finally, mommy finishes checking out (really wasn't long, only about 5 minutes for all of this and maybe 8 feet of aisle to cover). As I finally get back to pushing the front of the cart instead of pulling it along the aisle behind me, I discover he did manage to grab an impulse item-a 5-hour energy drink. I looked at him, laughed and let him know that of all the things to grab that was the one he really didn't need. We put it on another check out stand and escaped, thankful that I noticed before we left the store or even worse before he drank it!