We stopped in at two second hand/discount stores but "the perfect watch" was not to be found at either. Despite Jason and I's distaste for big stores, we ended up in Target. Alida had never been there before and her first comment was "circle" when she noticed their bull's eye logo. But then she noticed the large red balls that are fixed to the sidewalk all along the front of the store. She saw one and then another and then her eyes traveled down the long row of them and from my arms she exclaimed, "Oh my..."
The two of us took a few very entertaining spins around the store while Jason and Kali looked over the watch selection (Alida couldn't take it all in, but funniest of all was her desire to not have any help moving down the aisles in the cart. She was sitting in it and when I would push her she would say "self." Very funny to try to watch her try to go somewhere with no help...). Anyway, it wasn't long before Kali had a watch in her hands and was learning how to operate it. Jason continued to try to go over with her the merits of the various watches there, expounding on the positives and negatives of each. When Alida and I circled back around for the third time or so, Jason noted that it was clear what had transpired...."Kali has fallen in love." At that point there was no use trying to dissuade her from the chosen watch. And so we found ourselves at the check out counter with Kali slowly pulling crumpled dollar bill after dollar bill out, while a line of people waited behind her to check out. It was all she could do to wait until we got home to get it out of its case and onto her wrist.The watch story is ongoing as I've been informed of the time on average every two to five minutes of Kali's waking hours since the purchase. And we learned this morning that we can bike/run to the end of our road in 11 minutes and run/bike home in 6 (and Kali would make it more quickly if she didn't have to slow up at times for me). And the alarm goes off every now and then, and Kali times how long Alida has been sitting on the potty, and it dings at each passing hour. Right now it is beeping as Kali presses buttons and Alida is saying "beep beep." So much for my desire to be less focused on the specific time but just be very present in the moment.
But as all love stories goes, there have been some tears. Just as I was uploading these pictures with Alida asleep beside me, I heard far off sniffles that slowly approached the door of the bedroom. I was impressed at her control in not erupting into an all out wail but she was clearly distraght with tears in her eyes. She had just discovered that it said p.m. when it was to say a.m., that it said Sunday rather than Friday and that the date was off by a few months (that was due to her own set up from the evening before). She was sure that there was no way to fix this and we couldn't take the battery out because the instructions strictly said to never do that! I assured her that we could fix it but until Alida woke up and I was able to devote my full attention to the crisis at hand, she sat in misery thinking her love was forever mistaken on the date, day and time...I was able to fix it in a matter of minutes. But then the second crisis hit - I fixed all three settings and she wanted to fix some of them after knowing that it was possible. Thank goodness there are many settings on these kinds of things, because the final resolution was that I had not touched the alarm. Phew! It just rang to let us all know that Alida's turn on the recliner was over and it was Kali's turn. Life will surely have a new twist to it until the infatuation diminishes somewhat!
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