Aeon's Lost Sock in Target (12 Mar. 2022)
Today I went shopping with Aeon at Target. It's March 12, 2022---Saturday---20-something degree outside with a biting breeze but otherwise sunny. It feels like the earliest of spring days in northern Iowa. As per a typical Saturday, Christina worked at the Clear Lake Post Office while I took care of Aeon at home. I dressed Aeon in a light-worn pink shirt and blue-jean overalls early morning. My mom visited for an hour and helped me fed her blueberries and sweet potatoes for a late breakfast. She ate it all: some six-and-a-half- whole tablespoons! That is the most solid foods that I've fed her in one sitting. She's growing fast. Only four more months until she is one. Her hair grows thicker by the day, yet she still resembles a kiwi. She can sit on her own, pull herself down onto her belly from the seated position, stand assisted, express when she wants to be held, hugged, and picked up, but most of all she observes everything and giggles like a flooded lawnmower: ah-ah-ah...