Easton gets really excited when he knows I get to stay home with him. I decided not to go to class today (I didn't have a babysitter and didn't put much effort into finding one.) So I got to spend the morning with my baby. He made it until 5:30 before coming in to bed with me, which is pretty good for him, and slept all the way until 7:00! Now that is sleeping in. We watched his favorite show, Curious George, and ate cereal on the couch. I can't figure out why he likes George so much more than the other shows. Every time we turn on the TV or talk about watching a show he says "ooh ooh ah ah." He cracks me up.
Then he started to get a little wild. He broke one of the wooden blinds in half while attempting to use the blinds as a hoop for his basket ball. He dumped out his lucky charms, then his chex mix, then his lucky charms again. He made me get him a Go-gurt and then wouldn't eat it... You know just normal things, but I was starting to get frustrated so I tried to think of a way to calm him down. I remembered that Tyson had bought The Fox and the Hound for him and watched most of it with him last night, so I thought we would finish it. Can I just say I HATE THIS MOVIE?!?! It doesn't get any sadder! It doesn't even end happy. Anyway, Easton liked it until the bear attack. He was screaming "no!" for 10 minutes. I explained to him that their owies were going to get all better...then the bear and the fox fell off a cliff and crashed into the waterfall below. Try explaining that. He seemed a little unsettled and kept saying, "mean bear fall a water."
After the movie I wanted to get some cleaning done. Easton likes to help me with the little swiffer duster. While he was dusting and I was cleaning the glass I heard him yell, "Mom! A fork!" I turned around to see that he had pulled the duster off of the swiffer handle and it looked like a fork. He ran over to his chex mix to try to pick something up and eat it with his new enormous fork. So creative.
Then I asked him if he would help me clean his room. He said yes and ran back there yelling, "mom, East run fast! East run fast!" But when we got to his room, he couldn't help me clean because he insisted that he had to sit at his little table and "do homewook." He told me at least 10 times that that is what he wanted to do. I finally got him to get up from the table and find something else to play with. He does the funniest thing lately where he goes crashing into his huge pile of blankets and thinks I can't see him because he's buried face-down in the blankets. he starts yelling, "Oh no! I lost my baby!" because he wants me to start pretending to come find him. I know I've said it before, but he is so funny.
Then it was time for a bath. He wanted to bath with all of his animals. He lined them up on the edge of the tub so he could see them all. It's so fun to watch him play pretend with them and see how he makes the animals interact.
He thinks he is so funny, eating the cow's hay. You can tell by the picture that he doesn't even care that I am yelling, "get that out of your mouth right now or I'm going to throw it away." He's like, "ya right mom." We definitely have some discipline issues - I always tell him I'm going to throw his things away, but can never really do it. And he knows it. Going to have to find a new threat.
After bath time we made some ramen noodles and cheese toast. He insisted that he had a bug on him, which was a tiny piece of noodle. I told him there were no bugs and he seemed content with that for a while. Then all his noodles turned into snakes. "A nake! A nake! Ssssssssssssssss!" I'm tellin ya this kid has quite the imagination.
He's so much fun! I have to take advantage of these days I get to spend with him!
