Our First Shiner.

When we go grocery shopping I prefer to put J in the shopping cart, which he now hates. He is getting bigger and won't fit in it much longer. So I have been trying to let him walk more. But he is very active and bounces all over the place. The trip usually ends up with a fight and him back in the cart.

Our last trip to the store I only needed a few things. So I didn't even get a cart, and just had a small basket. J wanted to carry it so I let him. Of course he kept stopping to look at things and not paying attention to where he is walking. Which is a big thing we are working on, as he almost runs into several people every trip.

Well yesterday he stopped to look at some juice, and even after I told him we could get one he continued to argue with me because he wanted two. I told him to get moving, either he could have one or none. He finally started moving but kept looking back at the juice and slammed right into a metal rack.

Which resulted in his first real black eye. This picture was taken about 15 mins later when we got home. 

I have asked him several times since then how he hurt his eye "I wasn't watching where I was walking" he responds sullenly. Hopefully he will remember this incident and walking in the store will be much easier. Now if I could just get him to quit darting all over the place when he sees something he likes...