The Shopping Cart

You wouldn't think you'd need a shopping cart at the playground but Spencer likes to be prepared. He insisted on pushing the cart to what was to be a visit to the park only we never made it there. Every few feet, he stopped to admire a pine cone, to look up at the trees, to say hello to a cat passing by. It truly is a zen approach to the world which under ordinary circumstances, I would admire however being absolutely exhausted from a late New Year's Eve, I did not have much patience for his dawdling. Spencer was not happy when half way there, the time came to turn back home. I ended up carrying him and the cart back to where we started our journey. The lesson - if you want to walk to a park with a two-year-old, learn to appreciate that getting there is half the fun.