Clever Boy

Today I watched you form plans.  You wanted to put some of your blocks in the "trunk" of your car.  You'd been having a hard time opening the trunk.  It's tricky, because there's only a small indentation in the middle that lets you slip your finger underneath to lift the lid. Once you got it open, you thought about letting go with both hands to go for your block.  It looked like the kind of thing that would stay open.  Instead, you decided to hold the lid open with one hand, since it had been so hard to open.  Not worth the risk. You then filled it with blocks with your free hand.

Tonight you snuggled the fuzzy Koala in one of your touch and feel books.  At this point, you won't sit still for a reading, so I just show you pages in a drive-by fashion while you're doing something else.  I get some of your attention for a few minutes, which is better than nothing.  The touch and feel books seem more interesting to you, because there's something to do.  I don't think you really understand words or pictures yet.  But on the fuzzy Koala page, you leaned over and rubbed your face on the gray fur. Super cute.

You're such a handful on the changing table!  You will not lie still once your diaper is off.  You immediately try to roll to your belly,then crawl to the opposite end of the changing table, to look through the various creams and lotions to find something to play with.  You'll pull the air freshener off the handle, pull the detachable handle off.  You will just not sit still.  What's nice is that you seem to think it's a game.  When I hold you in place by grabbing your legs and making them counter-balance your roll, you try really hard to get away.  But then when you can't. you just laugh at me. Better than the alternative.  It takes a good 10 minutes to change you into night time clothes, due to the extra wiggles.  You also like to stand up and reach for me to pick you up, before you're changed.  I don't mind it.  Tonight I got you to hold still for your mom by nuzzling in by your neck and making NOM NOM NOM noises.  It tickled you, but it made you hold still so Kel could change you.

I was a bad daddy and gave you tiny nibbles of chocolate before bed. I ate one, and you saw me eating something, so crawled over to me, asked to be picked up, then tried to open my mouth to see what was in it.  How could I resist that?  I had to indulge your curiosity and expressive request.  So I unwrapped another, and took micro nibbles, which I then passed to you.  You wanted MOAR CHOCOLATE.  You tried to grab the large chunk out of my hand, and wouldn't wait for the tiny bits.  I had to hide the rest of it from you.