Panera Update

I still love Panera just as much as I always have. I think Caedan is starting to recognize that place like he recognizes home or Grandma's. In fact, as we were eating a few days ago, a lady comes up to us and asks what Caedan is eating. I tell her that he likes the chicken and bread. At the same time I am wondering to myself, why does she care. She then tells me that she had to know because as I carried him through the door his eyes lit up and he became very excited. Well, yes, of course, he is my son.

We seemed to draw attention to ourselves yesterday at Panera as well. We went to lunch, while Brian had band practice at our house. Caedan was getting very frustrated that he couldn't go in the basement and practice with the band. So I brought him to Panera to cheer us both up. We shared a Cobb salad, no cheese, no eggs and add pecans accompanied by a french baguet and a large ice tea (new summer menu item, which can now swap out with my Fuji salad). I also, being a good mommy, and instinctually knowing that my son needed to share a cookie with me got a chocolate chip one.

However, ordering the chocolate chip cookie caused quite a few stares. As I am ordering my lunch. I tell the cashier, who we happen to see quite often, that I would like a cookie but I am going to grab it when Caedan isn't looking. This prevents an entire meal of toddler angst. She completely understood and rung up the cookie but didn't hand me one or mention it. So when she was distracting Caedan with our cup, which he late spat into (thanks hun), I picked up a cookie with my free hand and moved it around my back, into my bag. Well didn't that get thousands of stares and disapproving looks from strangers. I would just like to say for the record I PAID FOR MY COOKIE! I do not take my son out for a day of shop lifting. Thank you and you obviously have forgotten what it is like to have a toddler.

Caedan enjoyed lunch and then got to come home and watch the band from the top of the stairs. He also came down after practice and got to hang out and "jam" with them. The perfect day for toddler Caed.