This morning I asked, “Who wants to go down and have some cereal?”
And it was my little Dashy who raised his arms and screamed, “ME!”
This kid understands everything.
If I ask him to get me a diaper and wipes, he comes back with them.
If I ask him to point to anyone in the room, he gets it right.
If I tell him it’s time for bed, he asks for his “day day”.
He is starting to say “please” a word B finally mastered with him.
Thank you is a little less prevalent in his vocab.
He is busy, busy, busy.
He copies everything anyone does.
Nothing is cuter than when Scout is showing me his karate routine, and Dash gets behind him and starts copying him.
He is SO happy and content to drive everywhere in the car with me.
But of all things Dash…..
this boy has a smile on his face 24 hours a day!
I love this little boy more than life itself!
This boy has been up to some pretty sneaky stuff lately.
We have Seth & Cade (two years older than he) to thank.
Thank goodness he has a guilty conscience and always spills the beans!
Example #1
So the other day he asked me if I wanted to go somewhere REALLY COOL.
We all wanted to, so we got on bikes and I got Dash in the stroller only to follow Scout to the private school around the corner.
He made us hide our bikes behind a shed and follow him.
Then he proceeded to go over to the school playground and climb over one locked fence, then two and then head to a door he could open from the inside and invited us in to play.
Once in, he told us to wait while he was going to climb one of three locked sheds that had a missing skylight.
Apparently he was going to get us a basketball we could play with.
Micah and I looked at each other and didn’t know whether to scold him or high five him.
I personally thought it was the adventure of a lifetime for a 6 year old!
But Micah parented up and said, “I think this is a better place to be without parents”.
Someone didn’t want to get in trouble….
And it wasn’t Scout!
We did play for a bit, and then left.
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Example #2
A different day, my mom was coming home and mentioned that she saw Scout and Seth riding their bikes past the gate.
Scout came home and told me he got a cookie, and it was SO GOOD!
I asked where, and he told me they just rode to the senior center down the street.
He told me the old people were really nice and said to come back any time.
I told him differently.
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But as sneaky as this kid is, the other night as he was up at Seth and Cade’s house, they were going to watch a movie. A few minutes later, I got a call from the sister that Scout said he wasn’t allowed to watch this particular movie. (Diary of a Wimpy Kid). I was SO proud of him–amongst all of his older friends, for following the rules. I immediately headed up and brought a movie he was allowed to watch. Not only was I proud of him for not following the crowd, but I was proud of his two older buddies for completely supporting him and not getting on him about it.
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Sneaky or not…I love this little guy.
Thursdays are the best and worst. The house cleaners come which provides for a Heavenly home. But we need to be out of the house while they are here, and sometimes that provides for spending a LOT….LOT of quality time with napless, tired kids. but this day, we found that Baby Beach was just the ticket. We invited Missy & kids down, and it was great!
Navy and Sidney played in the sand and water like champs together.
Scout and Riley made cool marble tracks in the sand.
And my littlest beach lover took in some rays and chased birds.
Oh yeah….and ate a bunch of Missy’s food.
I was the luckiest mom in the world to be pampered and entertained by my sweetest girl.
We got a delicious homemade brunch.
We got beautiful background music.
We played the Mother’s Day Game, but I was forced to pick wrong since my horrible secret-keeping daughter told me who I was.
Tuh Duh!
I was the girl “with really really long yellow hair”.
It was her card to me with the sweetest note inside.
Happy Mother’s Day to me!
Look what 4 year old got accepted into the 6 year old Karate class!!!
The teacher gave her a trial class to see if she could follow directions well, and she passed.
Here is her cinnamon-faced smile right before she goes to her second class.
All in an outfit that is so big it swims on her.
Look what big boy was walking confidently into his very first swim lesson at 18 months.
Gretchen asked for some reinforcement, so Navy and Scout were on scene.
They showed him several things and how to do them.
Including reaching out for the wall.
And pulling himself to safety.
Needless to say, he hated the whole lesson.
And has never sat still in my arms for as long as he did after a 30 minute cry fest.
But he watched a good “surfing” show by Scout and Micah.
And graciously accepted the “dum dum” peace offering from Gretchen.
We finally hung the baby swing up again.
Guess who was beyond thrilled….
Only the cutest baby on Earth.
Every morning is the same.
Cereal in the straw bowls.
But this third addition to our family has put a kink in our style.
He hates to be contained in his highchair, and is constantly standing in it.
But now days, he climbs out of it, and then climbs up on the table.
The other day after getting my kids their cereal, I heard Icka call out,”Mom, uh….Dash is kind of making a mess.”
Look at him waiting for bites of Icka’s cereal when he has a perfectly good bowl of his own on his high chair.
And when I went over to clean Icka off, Dash had the whole table to himself, and took the liberty of creating a little milk art.
How was Scout a spotless kid, and Navy and Dash are individual pigpens?
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