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).