at the mall

Last week Caleigh and I went to the mall to Stride Rite to get her sized for some walking shoes since now she is outside walking at the park, in the stores, etc.  At Stride Rite she did ok getting her feet measured but clearly she gets her shoe size from my side of the family.  Her foot is a size 3 wide which is really small in the realm of walkers.  Basically all of the shoes for walkers start at size 4.  The only shoes they had for a size 3 or size 3.5 wide walker were these white orthopedic looking shoes which would not fit onto her foot because her instep is so high (the same reason I can't fit into any ski boots!).  So basically she has tiny fat square feet and no shoes will fit her.  After that we headed to Nordstrom to see if they had any other brands she could try on.  While we were walking I decided I would partake in a blow-pop.  Of course Caleigh's sense of hearing is about 100x magnified, especially when it comes to food, so she heard me unwrap the lollipop and started furiously banging her chest (which is how she signs please) and whining.  In general I am not so quick to give in but we were at the mall and I thought it would be kind of funny to see what she did with the sucker.  She put it right in her mouth and went to town on it.  I was thinking this is a fun snack - it is contained... it is pretty cute...

Well, we didn't find anything at Nordstrom so we left and by this time I wanted the rest of the blow pop and Caleigh was getting to the gum part so as we were walking out the door I said, "Caleigh give that to Mama."  Of course she wasn't giving up so easily and turned her head and arched her back but I just took it out of her hand.  Whoever started the phrase "like taking candy from a baby" had clearly never tried taking a blow pop from a 14 month old.  Caleigh went berserk - she was screaming as if I had slapped her or something as I am attempting to casually exit Nordstrom and the rest of the mall.  She was certainly drawing attention.  She was also a huge sticky mess - her lips and around it was all red and sticky, her hands were SO sticky and gross.  It was an experience to say the least.  Is it obvious I am a first time mom?