Little grabby hands

Yesterday was grocery shopping day and little miss grabby hands kept reaching out for EVERYTHING at the check out line. I had all the groceries on the little conveyor belt and as I pushed the cart closer to the cashier Sophia leaned over and pulled some stuff off the belt and held it up for me to see like, “look mom I got your stuff back.” Thankfully, it was my stuff and not the stuff from the person in front or behind me. Ok hun, put it back. Here play with my purse. I get to the front of the line, next to the cashier, right where the credit card reader thing is placed. I never realized what a stupid place it is for that thing. I swipe my “rewards” card and hand it to grabby. Nope, she didn’t want it. She wants to hit the “Ok” key on the card reader…REPEATEDLY. Seriously, it’s a good thing I was paying attention to the cashiers screen or I would have no idea what amount I had agreed to pay. *glaring at child*

I got home and juggled the child, diaper bag, grocery bags, toys, and my purse into the house. Still holding the child, I placed the grocery bags on the counter right over the dishwasher. The door to the dishwasher is slightly open. This is the sign in our household that the dishes in there are actually clean but someone is too damn lazy hasn’t had a chance to put them away. For some reason I keep forgetting my child has arms with hands at the end which come fully equipped with thumbs. Damn my little monkey for having opposable thumbs! She grabbed one of the grocery bags that I just set on the counter without me noticing, and pulled it off. It landed on the door of the dishwasher causing it to tumble over, and dump everything onto our ceramic tiled floor. All I can say is I am so glad that it wasn’t the bag with glass jars in it! I bought maple syrup – that could have been very ugly! Tasty, but ugly.

I realize she doesn’t need thumbs to do the grabby hands thing, but I thought I’d give them (her thumbs) a good preemptive damning. I’m sure the day will come when my thumb damning will be justified.