Too cute to be good

Alex has been interested in the potty for the last couple months and I am more than happy to encourage this interest. A couple days ago he sat on his potty and announced to me the various adventures he was having with the potty while I was cooking dinner (there is a half bath just off the kitchen). Alex knows that he is not allowed to be in the bathroom alone with the door shut so he quite often makes a game of closing and opening the door just to see what I will do. I thought today was one of those days and was quite easily distracted with making dinner, so Alex would close the door and then I would go open the door and he would close the door... you see how this was progressing. I was finally at a pause in the cooking so I dragged Alex out of the bathroom and thought it rather cute that he had stuffed a few Kleenex in his potty (he's also big on having to wipe every time he's near the potty).



When Brian came home I asked him to look in the bathroom at what Alex had done. Brian was not impressed. I did not understand why, until he pointed out the big chunk of wall paper missing! I then realized that Alex was being way too cute at the time to not have been involved in mischief.

I avoided mischief today. I relented and finally let Alex 'help' mommy wash the dishes. I made sure all things sharp were washed and put out of reach before I put him beside me. I was quite impressed with his minimal splashing. He loves bubbles in the bathtub so of course bubbles in the sink kept him fascinated well into dinner time without a fuss. Perhaps this will need to become a regular occurrence. :)

Anymore snow?

We are getting a little tired of winter already. It's hard to believe after all our initial excitement and hard work at staying on top of the shoveling. But it has happened, we are ready for summer. I just came in from shoveling and chipping at the hard packed snow with one of those short handled sharp shovels (often used for digging holes). I am a little tuckered out. It was the chipping that did me in.

Alex, on the other hand, is not. He loves to go sledding and throw snowballs for hours. He will occasionally lie down for snow angels (he has a fear of laying on his back). Brian made him his own sledding hill in the front yard this past weekend. The neighbor girls broke it in for us.

I can picture Australia and it's warmth right now, I don't even have to close my eyes. So please, Lord, don't let it snow into April this year.