Trey's bedtime ritual has not deviated from when he was a very little boy. We take a bath, get our jammies on, Daddy reads us a book, we say our prayers, and then we go to bed.
Last night Blinn was putting the finishing touches on a meatloaf that we had started earlier that night to have for dinner the next night. So I was getting Trey ready for bed solo, and we were towards the middle of our nighttime book "Winken, Blinken and Nod" when Blinn walked through to get his workout clothes out of Trey's room for the next morning. When Trey saw his Daddy trying to leave, he grabbed the book out of my hands with both of his hands, and held it up to his Dad and said (with binky in mouth) "ugh". "Ugh" of course was his directive to his Dad to sit down and finish the story per our usual routine. You can't get much by The Dude.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
too young for an allowance?
Here are a list of things Trey likes to "help" around the house with at 15 1/2 months:
1. Refilling Gus' food dish. We ask Trey if he can get Gus some more food. Trey then toddles over to where we keep Gus' food and water, bends down, and with both hands picks up the food dish. As Blinn and I say "Use both hands! Be careful!", Trey seriously (his serious face is his mouth shut, his brows slightly furrowed, and he walks with a purpose- almost stomping his feet) walks over to the container where we store Gus' food and waits for one of us to open and refill the dish. We then hand Trey back the now fairly full dish and he turns himself around, walks over to where the food needs to return, and very carefully sets it down on the mat. He is rewarded with lots of "thank you(s)!" and "good job Trey!". We are rewarded with a very content dude as the mission has been accomplished.
2. Cleaning up spilled beverages. Trey will take his sippy cup off of the coffee table in our living room and proceeds to shake some drops on to the the floor. He then goes over to where the paper towels are and points up towards them, nods his head and says "yeah yeah". That is our cue to get him a paper towel. Once he has one, he takes it to where the spill is (again, the spill HE created) and wipes it up. So helpful.
3. Taking the garbage out. Taking the garbage out at our house is a task done most often (okay, pretty much exclusively) by Blinn. Trey loooooves to be outside and with his Daddy, so it's become a team effort. At first, Blinn would carry Trey and the garbage, but Trey would try to grab the big bag of trash. Blinn had the genius idea of making Trey his own trash bag to take out. This entails me looking for little bits of trash around the house to put in a grocery sack for Trey to take out with Daddy and the big bag of trash. Now when I ask the boys if they can take the trash out, Trey stands by where we keep the grocery sacks and waits for me to fill it up, then he goes and stands by the back door and waits for his Daddy to go take the trash out.
4. Wiping after "going potty". We bought Trey a little toilet so he could go potty when mom and dad do (since he apparently needs to be with us while we're doing our thing, we figured he might as well practice too!). Trey sits on his little potty, points to the sink where the toilet paper is sitting, and we then give him a little square of his own. He proceeds to use the square of TP just like he should and even throws in a couple of grunts for good measure. He gets that from his dad.
1. Refilling Gus' food dish. We ask Trey if he can get Gus some more food. Trey then toddles over to where we keep Gus' food and water, bends down, and with both hands picks up the food dish. As Blinn and I say "Use both hands! Be careful!", Trey seriously (his serious face is his mouth shut, his brows slightly furrowed, and he walks with a purpose- almost stomping his feet) walks over to the container where we store Gus' food and waits for one of us to open and refill the dish. We then hand Trey back the now fairly full dish and he turns himself around, walks over to where the food needs to return, and very carefully sets it down on the mat. He is rewarded with lots of "thank you(s)!" and "good job Trey!". We are rewarded with a very content dude as the mission has been accomplished.
2. Cleaning up spilled beverages. Trey will take his sippy cup off of the coffee table in our living room and proceeds to shake some drops on to the the floor. He then goes over to where the paper towels are and points up towards them, nods his head and says "yeah yeah". That is our cue to get him a paper towel. Once he has one, he takes it to where the spill is (again, the spill HE created) and wipes it up. So helpful.
3. Taking the garbage out. Taking the garbage out at our house is a task done most often (okay, pretty much exclusively) by Blinn. Trey loooooves to be outside and with his Daddy, so it's become a team effort. At first, Blinn would carry Trey and the garbage, but Trey would try to grab the big bag of trash. Blinn had the genius idea of making Trey his own trash bag to take out. This entails me looking for little bits of trash around the house to put in a grocery sack for Trey to take out with Daddy and the big bag of trash. Now when I ask the boys if they can take the trash out, Trey stands by where we keep the grocery sacks and waits for me to fill it up, then he goes and stands by the back door and waits for his Daddy to go take the trash out.
4. Wiping after "going potty". We bought Trey a little toilet so he could go potty when mom and dad do (since he apparently needs to be with us while we're doing our thing, we figured he might as well practice too!). Trey sits on his little potty, points to the sink where the toilet paper is sitting, and we then give him a little square of his own. He proceeds to use the square of TP just like he should and even throws in a couple of grunts for good measure. He gets that from his dad.
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