baby for sale or trade

 

just turned one year old. goes by the name of wyatt but also responds to "chubby". often has snot dripping from his nose and boogers crusted on his nostrils. otherwise, cute as a button but, oh, so incredibly (and destructively) curious. 

here he is dancing in his big brother's potty. thank goodness it was clean.

what do you mean those frames aren't up there for me to grab?

a couple of weeks ago, he banged a thomas train on his daddy's tablet and cracked the screen. bad. that may have been the first time i've ever seen the mister cry. 

and for today's installment of "what wyatt broke"...(drumroll......) 

i present to you mommy's netbook.

i came out of the kitchen and found him ON TOP of the dining table, picking the keys off. i swear, the breathing techniques i learned in my childbirth preparation classes come in way more useful during toddler-age than during childbirth. they should call them, "how-to-calm-the-f*ck-down-when-your-kids-break-expensive-things breathing techniques".

and because wyatt didn't think my heart rate was high enough to cause an aneurysm, he let me fish this piece of my keyboard out of his mouth.

he is my fourth child, so you'd think i'd be a pro by now, but i'm not even close. this little booger keeps me on my toes constantly and even that is not enough. my toes are, apparently, still too slow.


we have slowly been redecorating around the house to allow for his mischievous behavior without earning frequent flyer miles at the emergency room. there's a lovely plastic gate blocking the kitchen as off limits now. not an eye sore. not at all. and we no longer have chairs around the dining table so that he cannot climb up onto the table. if you want to come over for a formal dinner, you'll have to stand at the table. that's just that. 

i think we are experiencing early onset of the "terrible twos" with this little guy. 

if he starts earlier, does that mean we get past that stage earlier, too? 

i freaking hope so!