shiver
Posted : 6/4/2009 3:14:47 PM
Oh my goodness... he is growing up so fast! What a joy it is to watch.
Spanked his own butt huh... well, I guess he is just trying to show you he knows what he is getting... and it is just a little pat on the hinny. He was just trying to save you some time... Mooommmm! come on, don't you know that!!!???
He look's a lot like you. But I think I have only ever seen one picture of your husband and that was his back on a trail ride. ( down the long dirt driveway) Does he look like him too?
Let me tell you, as I'm sure you have already learned, at this age kids are full of it! They have energy streaming from every orface and we spend hours chasing them correcting them, playing with them, enteraining them, encouraging them, loving them...And the rewards are great.
Then when they get older the kids are still full of it. But at this time they take the lessons they learned when they where younger and test them. Trying to figure out for themselves if parents really do know best. At that time it drains us also. But no longer because of all the physical energy it takes to keep up with them... but because of the emotional energy it takes to now let them figure it out on their own.
Enjoy those hugs, kisses, those cockeyed grins. Take lots of pictures and enjoy every second of it. Yes they grow up, you have more time to yourself.. and you miss you baby. This is a gift. Keep enjoying it. Next potty brake smile to yourself and hug him close when you take him down the stairs.... and remember... you can always blackmail them later. lol