Grocery Shopping With Tori
Tori had been living with Vlad for at least two weeks now. The first night was absolutely insane for Vlad. After only sleeping for an hour, Tori woke up, screaming for a bottle. He couldn't believe it. How could a child want a bottle at two o'clock in the morning? But he got up anyways, carrying the shrieking child to the kitchen where he had stored bottles of formula in the refrigerator. She finished about half of the bottle before she spit up onto his silk pajamas. By now, Vlad had gotten used to changing a smelly diaper or cleaning the spit up on his clothes. The waking up several times a night part, he was still working on. But, he noticed that the refrigerator was starting to look rather bare, excluding a package of cheese and a bottle of formula. Vlad looked at Tori nervously. Was he honestly expected to take a baby out into the grocery store where there could be very well a million viruses just waiting to make her sick?
Yep, he was expected to do so.
"Okay, Tori…Look's like we need to go to the store…" Vlad said rather nervously. He took her into her pink nursery, which he had done by himself, changed her diaper one last time, and dressed her warm, due to the chilly October air. Grabbing the last bottle of formula, plenty of clean diapers, wipes, and powder, he took her out to the car and buckled her into the car seat. As he was driving, Tori was making little baby noises the whole time. Not bad baby noises, but rather cute ones, such as the occasional cooing and the tiniest of giggles. 'Not a care in the world…' Thought Vlad as he pulled into the parking lot of the grocery store. Grabbing the diaper bag and Tori, Vlad made his way to the entrance of the grocery store, baby and bag in tow. He managed to figure out the infant seat in the shopping cart, and strapped her in the seat, praying that no viruses were going to make their way to the helpless infant. The last thing he needed was a sick baby. So, along the way, several customers would stop to catch a glance at Tori, and a couple of mothers and grandmothers stopped to say what a cute baby she was. Vlad's heart swelled with joy as one woman said that she looked like a very happy baby, and that he was doing a great job. One little boy who had been rubbing his ear wanted to feel her hair, and Vlad allowed him to do so. Once they were in the frozen food section, however, Tori began to wail loudly. Red faced, Vlad quickly took her to the men's room to check and see if her diaper needed to be changed again. It did, and he changed the full diaper, silencing Tori. She was more focused on slurping on her fingers afterwards. Once the cart was full, Vlad decided that this would sustain them for a while, and he went to the checkout lane. However, right as they were being rung up, Tori went back to shrieking. Several of the customers who didn't have children began to cover their ears and give Vlad mean glares. He could have sworn that he had run out of the grocery store with a crying baby sitting in the cart. He quickly loaded the food and baby supplies in the trunk, buckled Tori into her seat, and then sped out of the parking lot. Tori was still crying by the time he got home. Once he had put the groceries away, he fed her a bottle. She sucked on it noisily, then was finished when she was about halfway done. Once again, Vlad patted her back until she spit up on him. He was used to it by now, and he simply laid her down on the pink knitted Green Bay Packers blanket he had knitted for her, took off his shirt, and tossed it into the washing machine. He turned the television on, where they were showing the news. Tori looked up at him and cooed, drooling lightly. He smiled and watched the news.
"And in other news today, there is a new outbreak of ear infections going around, which is highly contagious among children. Parents are advised to keep a close and careful eye on their children for any symptoms of ear infections, as well as sanitize anything the children touch." The news lady had said. Vlad barely paid any attention to this as he switched the news to a Green Bay Packers game. That night however, Vlad was woken up to shrieks of pain.