If I park at the school for the school run it once took me less than 5 minutes to get from the car to the classroom door. Sadly those days are now gone , the culprit for this change is Elliot the brand spanking new toddler.
He has realised he can practice his walking outside, and by jolly is he going to do it at every opportunity, irrespective of what I say...
We get out of the car and I attempt to force him into the buggy, his response to this idea, if he could talk the response would be a simple...."go jump".
He takes those few seconds to find his balance and then he is off.
Sadly in the wrong direction, once he is turned around he immediately does a deviation onto the grass to look at the fence.
I offer my finger to hold and head back towards the path, but what does he spy, the most amazing thing ever, yes its a stick. Several sticks later, some are handed to me, some he holds onto and some he just tries to chew, now we are off again....
Nope strike that he has spotted something even more astounding, yes its dead leaves, wow, again these are examined, consideration is given towards eating them, then many many individual leaves are passed back to me.
By this point I am slowly losing the will to live, and I am tempted to tuck him under my arm like a rugby ball and just make a run for it towards the school door.
We are off again, only this time yet again in the wrong direction, now we are back at the car where we started, so we head off again. This time he stays on task, until he sees a little brick shed housing some gas workings. This little building really really has to be touched and looked at.
Again we are off, but now we have railings, each one it seems needs a cuddle, to be touched for a very long time and then they clearly need to be licked.
This is the point where I snap, promise him he can walk around the playground while grabbing him and running towards the door to his utter disgust and protest.
Am I really the only one who lacks the patience for toddler walking. I know its a thrill that he can walk, I know the world is one big adventure to him, and he does look as cute as can be, but please please please can we get some speed or urgency or even just forward motion into the walking.
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