Recent e-mail to Counting Blessings

I recently sent this email to Counting Blessings regarding how lil'daddy and I's day was going. She said I should put it up on the blog and looking back at it..., it is a classic. So before it gets buried in my Inbox and while I have a couple minutes free, here goes...

"I told you how I straightened and cleaned the kitchen this morning…

10 minutes before his nap, John managed to dump an arm full of cars in the kitchen, spread out his letter and animal magnets across the floor, hide his kitchen utensils somewhere, distribute his Bob the Builder tools around the room and empty out his cup of OJ in the pots’n’pans cabinet. By the way, you know the little dowels that hold the shelves up in his kitchen set… He’s discovered them… and likes to put them “I done-noo-ware”. I think we need to glue him- err- the dowels in place.

Maybe we SHOULD get him a cell phone; one with one of those GPS trackers. This way when he decides to disassemble everything, we have a timeline and location for all his where-abouts! I hope he takes his nap. He’s in his crib but just finished an encore performance of ‘Take Me Out To The Ball Game’. "

...we have glued the dowels in place and we are not getting him a cell phone!:)

He has gotten into the habit of singing himself to sleep. Frequently it's "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "America, The Beautiful" or the "Bob The Builder Themesong". Tonight he's reciting the cow, chicken and duck parts for 'Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type'. This was after he announced to mommy and daddy (after we told him to close eyes) that he was a cow. "click clack moo click clack moo... click clack quack..." "close eyes lil'daddy" "clickity clack quack... The cow keeps waking up!"

Gotta love that lil'daddy!