Here’s what we’ve learned this week:
1. How to operate the diaper pail AND how to use it to pick up all of our toys and make them disappear!
2. How to rally at nap time. This means even though we are yawning and falling asleep on mommy’s shoulder when we head for a nap, within fifteen minutes we will be jumping in our crib like it’s a circus trampoline. In this way, we can stay awake for HOURS.
3. We have also become a homing missile for cups with liquid in them. If there is a cup ANYWHERE in the room with liquid in it, we will find it and dump it out. It doesn’t help that big sister HAS to have a glass of water by her bed at night that is usually forgotten in the morning so EVERY SINGLE TIME we go in the bedroom to play we end up mopping up water. You would think we would learn after the third time this week but no. We just mopped up water again.
4. We have discovered that there are games on the top shelf of the toy cupboard. It doesn’t matter that there are a ton of toys down where we can reach them. We only want the toys on the TOP SHELF. Unfortunately, those toys are up there because they all have small pieces we can’t have.
5. We either have a cold or are in teething hell, because we have a nose that runs like a faucet and we have also started drooling, which is fun in itself but it’s also a neat combination with the snot. In addition to this fantastic new mess (or perhaps because of it), we have learned how to pick our nose. Yep.
6. We have learned how to run away from mom when we poop in our diaper.
7. We have, either from black magic or from the teething/cold combination, learned that we don’t have to go right to sleep at bedtime. Instead we can stay up and jump on our bed and hide our binkies in the hiding place behind that crib that is still fun to use even though mom knows about it now.
8. We finally, 3/4 of the way through summer, decided that water in pools is not the worst thing on earth. In fact, we will even climb right into the baby pool now, and can go to the water park without crying the whole time. This is a great milestone, even if it means pregnant mom can no longer relax in the shade next to the water table but instead must chase the toddler around the kiddie pool.