She was just so pretty and I loved her smiling at me

And so it begins....
we can't cook much this week, being how the kitchen is all packed up and it's not convenient. sure, we can cook some things, but we're also tired and trying to finish going thru these dang boxes while taking care of business.

anyway. so we left the house tonight to head to Subway for those advertised $5 foot longs. we get there to find one couple sitting there eating, one person ahead of us and two girls leaving. as we waited for our order to be prepared, the next thing we know is Christopher is trying to talk to the woman having dinner with her date. and then he's next to her giving her a hug.

okay, she was cute, actually very beautiful. average height and weight, dark hair, pretty brown eyes, nice smile, probably in her late 20's. and she smiled at him. when he hugged her, she laughed and hugged him back. not wanting to embarrass him, we tried to handle the situation and told him he can't be hugging people he doesn't know. so, he said he did know her, "she's nice." we told him that when you get to know people, you need to know their names, so he called across the room, "what's your name."

she tells him, "my name is Lindsey"
we tell him that the proper way to find out a person's name is to tell them, "hi, my name is Christopher. what's your name?"
so he tells her immediately, "my name is Christopher!"
then he runs back over and gives her another big hug, and then asks her who that guy was.
laughing, Lindsey tells him, "this is my fiance"
he just kept turning to look over in her direction, and of course, she was laughing and smiling even more now!


we call him back over, and the Subway shop was a small room, so he was back in an instant. we strongly suggest to him that they are eating and not to bother people when they are eating, so he stayed with us then, but kept looking over to her.

thankfully, our sandwiches were ready now, because no other diversion tactic that we tried on him was working this time.
as we left, he called out loudly, "BYE!!"

in the car, we started our conversation with him about, "well, you are not in trouble. let's talk about Lindsey. why did you go and give her a hug?"
he replied back quickly about how she was just so pretty "and she smiled at me and I had to give her a hug"

both Mike and I were trying desperately not to laugh as Christopher was candid in his answers, literal man that he is, but I have to say it was very difficult to not laugh! given the seroiusness of the problem of talking to strangers, we had a rather lengthy conversation back and forth about how it was inappropriate to go and hug strangers. that even though he now knew her name and had given her a hug, we still did not know her very well. that in the future if he felt he needed to go and hug or talk to a stranger, he had to get permission first. we explained the dangers and how not everyone is a good person, at which he started asking if the bad people were all like Hitler. we have a lot of work to do. they discuss different people at school, so Hitler has come up in conversation before, but not lately.

he clearly knows about not going with strangers, not letting anyone steal him, and so on, with about as much training as we can give him without going overboard and making him neurotic. and then today, a pretty face added another dimension to our parenting work a little sooner than we had anticipated.

and so it continues. for it is true that the first time we caught him flirting with beautiful faces was when he was an infant of 6 months old, and also sick with croup. we had gone to Disneyland with some friends and all got sick while he ended up in the hospital for about a day. we stopped to get dinner at Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles in Los Angeles to get dinner before driving back to northern CA, and he actually flirted with our waitresses, who then went and got their other pretty waitresses to come see this beautiful baby. he batted his eyes and smiled differently than we had ever seen him smile at that point. his first and also successful attempt at flirting at the ripe age of 6 months old! and now almost 6 yrs old and still in the game. by our calculations, he's too dang young to be enamored by eye candy!