mommy's little helper

11/9/12

 Today's my lucky day.  I'm spending it at home with Parker while Jim is at work and Jake is on a field trip (All of the Kindergarten classes at his school went to see "Martha Speaks".)  I suspect we'll have several more of these than we had anticipated between now and mid December when our Christmas vacation and breaks begins because he's out of preschool until January.  He was still being bitten way too often - sometimes multiple times in a week - and we just couldn't let him take it anymore (especially when he wasn't dishing it out in the first place or in retaliation to let them know how it feels).  He's enrolled at the same K2-12 school Jake is, but his start date isn't until January - just a few days before his second birthday.  So until then, we are taking my parents up on their offer to help, taking as many days off as we can to give his grandparents a break, and soaking him up like a sponge on days like this one.

Today, he's been my much-needed assistant.  I gave him his own never-used-before sponge to help me clean potties and wipe down our kitchen counters.  He picked out which shirt he wanted to wear and helped me get him dressed.  And being the lover of laundry that he is, he has helped me sort load after load and transfer it from our washer to our dryer (all while wearing various pieces of it on his head - put there all by himself).

    

5 comments:

  1. so sweet!! he is precious! I'm glad you enjoyed your day!

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  2. What a sweet little helper! And what a special day.

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  3. My mom was telling me about the biting and I absolutely can't get over how something like this can happen more than once..... or twice at the absolute most! So sorry he (and you) had to go through that. I can't think of a better partner for the day!

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  4. it took me a second to figure out what was on his head, should have read the post first, ha :) he's a cutie! sorry to hear he's getting bit, he's just so yummy :)

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  5. Thank you, Ladies!!! Love you All!

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