Dyslexia and Costco Calamity

I never realized how...um..."challenged" my husband can be. (Please read the humor in this statement and not take it to heart.)

I have been increasingly impressed with how much Joey is learning even without going to preschool. He is starting to read and write small words by sounding out the letters. The other day, he was showing Daddy his new skill with "og" words. He could write "frog" and then tell what other "og" words were. For example; log, fog, dog. Daddy pipes up with his own "og" word. "How 'bout God." I really tried hard not to laugh. Really, I mean it. I tried. But I couldn't help myself. In all fairness, he did come up with a word that had both an 'o' and a 'g' in it....just not in the right order.

Today he did our bi-monthly grocery shopping. He starts at Costco for those bulk items we get all the time, and then migrates to Fred Meyer for the smaller goods. I must say preface this story with the fact that I was not there with him. If I had been, there would be no story to tell. When Nick was telling me what happened, I started laughing after the first sentence because I just knew what was coming. By the time he was done telling me, I had tears in my eyes.

Since Nick usually does the shopping around the lunch hour, he will occasionally stop for a piece of pizza at Costco after making his purchases. So he parked his full cart next to all the other full carts of those taking advantage of the "snack shack" at Costco and stood in line for his order. He stood next to the cart to eat his pizza and drink his soda. Then he went to throw away his trash. Calmly, he came back to the cart and started heading towards the door. He got nearly all the way to the door, when the "owner" of the cart he was leaving with caught up with him to advise him that he was leaving with the wrong cart! I could not stop laughing. I could see it all in my head as he was telling me.

My husband is a wonderful man, and he is usually much more "put together" than these snippets show. But they are good for a laugh, so I wanted to share.