baby in the window

The little man and I had some errands to attend to on this beautifully warm and sunny afternoon. In order to make the trip more enjoyable for Cam I hooked him up lovely. First he went sock free with his toes hanging out in the breeze and second he got a deluxe ride up close to me as I wore him in the baby carrier as opposed to his usual digs in the stroller. I have noticed that since I have started wearing Cam more often when we go out that I get a lot of strange looks from people. Like they don't know what to make of it. Baby just hanging all out in front like that, wiggling toes and such. I'm thinking maybe Cam has been picking up on these strange looks and decided he did not in fact appreciate the awkward stares or diverting eyes. I'm not really sure what happened. At any rate he has quickly become an enormous flirt when he's hanging out like this. Maybe to generate some more positive attention. Well whatever he's doing seems to be working as I spent a good portion of our trip today making introductions for him to the many ladies that he flashed his adorably gummy smile to. A cashier in one store we shopped actually told me that he had completely made her day! I mean I know that he is insanely adorable and charming (did you see his onesie on st. patty's day)but it seems that lately he is a regular chick magnet.

I miss these day-making smiles when he is forward facing the world, dangling out in front of me. Although I do get to give him lots of smooches and get my nose into that sweet smelling baby hair. That smell alone is enough to make anyone's day... Anyway, I digress, I have actually spent most of this post digressing... Sooo after Cam made the cashier's day and we left to go onto the next place we walked by a large vacant store. As we passed I stopped for a minute in front of an empty window to catch a glimpse of his smile in our reflection. It always takes a minute but as soon as Cam sees our reflection he gets all crazy excited. Like I said earlier, it was beautiful today and since we had the afternoon to ourselves and Cam clearly loves the game of baby in the mirror, we played the game stopping at each window to check ourselves out and laugh. Even though Cam and I must have looked crazy, him hanging off of me and me hopping back and forth in front of windows I could have cared less what was going on in the world around us. We were having fun. But as we approached our destination, a lady who was outside enjoying her break in the sun looked at me and said-"I love the way you took the time to make him laugh like that". I just smiled and we went on our way.

Making him laugh makes my day.