Going shopping with Sam has gotten a little more difficult as he’s gotten older. Gone are the days when I could plop his little carseat in the shopping cart and go about my business. (And yes, I realize it’s only going to get worse before it gets better!)

Sam loves to grab anything he can, so I have to be careful as I walk down the aisles to not get to close to anything breakable. The other day at Trader Joe’s, he grabbed a clamshell pack of cherry tomatoes and threw it on the ground before I could even blink! Tomatoes rolled everywhere as we quickly and quietly made our escape.

Another favorite is turning around in his seat to grab grocery items out of the cart and shake them around a little. Not a problem with a box of lettuce, a little more troublesome when it is the not-so-perfectly-wrapped fish I just picked up from the seafood counter!

He actually hasn’t shoplifted anything yet (that I know of) but I figure it’s just a matter of time!