Random Things

Since the first of the month, at bed time, we've been reading books by the light of Liam's new lantern. That first night, Ian came in and started doing shadow puppets. The dog is amiably named "woof" by Liam. That dog nibbles on Liam's toes, give kisses and makes him giggle. We love having a pet dog that lives in the wall and only visits a few minutes before bed time.

Liam has a boot fascination. He has a pair of snow boots, as does Daddy and he loves to put them on and try to walk in them. We love how he can keep himself busy and make us laugh!

The other night, I was following Liam up the stairs patting him on the bum all the way.
I said, "Liam, you are so cute!"
He said, "Yeah! I cute!"
(I just wanted to hold him and squeeze his cuteness forever!)

Liam has been saying "dop et" a lot lately to both me and Ian. At the beginning of the week I had ignored it hoping he wasn't saying "stupid"... I mean, who taught my kid the word stupid?!? But I later figured out that he has been saying "stop it"... the very thing he hears from his mom quite often. I am glad he doesn't know the word stupid, but I've realized that I need to say less of a couple other words.

Liam has been helping me with the household chores:

He has been throwing his own diapers and other trash away since he was one, but he can open the door to the pantry himself this past year and that makes it nice because I don't have to get up to help him.

He feeds the cats. I hand him a scoop of food, he dumps it in their bowl and then puts the scoop back in the bin.

He vacuums! I give him the tube and he gets down on the floor and sucks up each and every crumb, piece of lint, dust, hair and whatnot. Cracks me up how thorough he is. He gets upset when it's Mom's turn. And even more upset when the vacuum gets put away.

He does laundry. I sort the whites and darks. He gets his stool and puts it up to the side of the washing machine. One by one he'll put each thing in. I let him do his thing while I go and do something else. He also helps me put things in the dryer with much satisfaction.

Oh and he puts the dish washing tablet in the dishwasher and starts it.