Troublemaker

That is his name now, troublemaker. He seems to be getting into more and more things lately, just like every little kid I guess, but he is wearing me out!

This morning he colored on the chair with a Sharpie. Thank goodness for the magic eraser. I have no idea how it works but I sure am glad it does!

You can't really see it in the picture but he had a blue mouth here from eating chalk. This was just a few small nibbles but in the days to follow he managed to take large bites out of the pieces of chalk. I don't even know how he did it actually but he had a mouth full of green chalk. Gross.

He loves dumping stuff and was so quick to give me his "cheese" smile. He sure was proud of his mess! Luckily Pebbles liked these puffs and ate most of them up.

Some of his other recent tricks include playing with dog food and water when I am not quick enough in the morning to remove it, climbing out of his crib, throwing huge hissy fits about stuff, screaming until he has a hoarse voice just because he wants something, and my least favorite playing in the toilet. I found him twice in the past week dipping his pointer finger in the toilet and cleaning it off in his mouth. If only everyone would shut the bathroom doors!

But then it comes to prayer time and he is so cute and loves to fold his arms now and it all goes away. It is so cute to see him know what prayer time is and fold his arms without me even saying anything. Some times he starts to jabber with whom ever is saying the prayer too.

I think his, and mine, least favorite thing to do is change his diaper. He cries, screams, arches his back, twists around and does anything he can to get away from me. It is a huge source of stress for me every day. Anyway, as you can see in these pictures we have switched over to cloth diapers to see if it will help with his diaper rash that never seems to go away completely. Maybe that is why he hates diaper changes so much becasue his heiney always hurts. We still use regular diapers some times but now that I bought these things I am trying to use them. He still has a rash but that is expected with diarahea. I am hoping once we get the rash away this time the cloth diapers will keep further ones away.

He was watching a baby Einstein video that had different pictures of things in the house. He was trying to copy the words they would say. When they got to the picture of the table didn't try to say table but he said "get down." I couldn't stop laughing. He's got it, even if he doesn't listen to me, I know he is hearing me!

Playing with Pebbles. He loves to play with her, feed her, and hang out with her and on her. Pebbles is the only one who shares his love of balls and the backyard. They are good buddies. He is a fun little guys but he definately is getting harder for me. And he doesn't stop moving. Love this guy, even if he is a trouble maker.