Who are you, kiddo?
Tonight was one of those nights where you look at this creature that you've been with every day of his life and yet you feel like you're looking at him for the first time in a year because of some monumental changes that occurred seemingly (and in some cases, literally) overnight.

This morning, right when David woke up, I changed him out of his pee-pee diaper, and I, in my typical fashion, wadded it up and threw it onto the ground where I was going to pick it up and take it to the diaper champ in the other room. No need. He climbed down the bed, picked it up himself, and walked to the other room and threw it into the diaper champ. Profuse praising ensued.

Then, this evening around 5:45, right when we got home and indoors, I said "David, shoes off." So he promptly sat down, let me take his shoes off, and then he took his own socks off (which is the usual routine). Then, he threw his socks into a pile, then got up, picked up those same socks, and ran into his room and threw them into the hamper. We've been working on that trick for 4 days, and now it's like he's been doing it his whole life. Profuse praising ensued.

Then, after he finished eating dinner, I got some wet paper towels and started wiping up the floor below his high-food-dropping-traffic area was and was very vigorously wiping in circular motions. I looked up to notice that he was copying me by vigorously wiping down his kiddie table with the same motion, and with a different dry paper towel that was already on his table. The best part? He went to the trash can right after and deposited the used paper towel. The trash part involved manually lifting the lid and then closing it once deposited. Profuse praising ensued.

I tell ya, some days, I think I'm going to drop him off at a fire station any minute, and other days, it's like OMG! How much freakin cuter can you be???
- posted by Connie @ 11/20/2008 09:55:00 PM