Silly things with Hunter...

I realized that I have already started to have to find little funny ways to get Hunter to do things or keep him content while doing something.  For instance, in order to get him to open his mouth and let me brush his teeth, I sing him the "Happy Birthday" song while he's taking his bath.  Haha.  He loves for me to sing to him so the first song that popped in my head was that song and then he let me brush his teeth!  It doesn't work every time but for the most part it does.

Here are a few others:

- You know my boy is picky about eating. I told you how he just doesn't like his highchair, well, sometimes, I feed him in the bath tub (seems to be a very productive place for us, huh?).  One day, I wasn't able to pick him up from day care until late and he was already super crabby and tired when we got home.  He didn't want to eat anything  but I was starving so I had some macaroni and cheese that I had leftover in the fridge.  Nuked it for 2 minutes.  Told myself that maybe after his bath he will try and eat some cereal.  I grabbed the mac and cheese out of the microwave, started his bath and put him in.  He looks at me and starts going bananas like he wants MY mac and cheese after I just put away his dinner that he refused to touch. So he ate all my mac and cheese.  LOL.  I only try this on nights when Hunter is crabby/ tired  and I have to get him underway with his bedroom routine pretty quickly and works everytime.  Love our bathtub! In addition, we have put away the highchair.  Henow sits at his little table with chairs and loves it and it works like a charm (whenever he doesn't eat in the bathtub). =)

-  Now I don't want to say that I'm already starting him on chores or I may be in trouble with all those child labor laws buuuuut, Hunter does like to help mommy sweep, do laundry and empty the dishwasher.  The sweeping is a no brainer, and doesn't really help with the collecting of dog hair and crumbs but he does hold the dust pan for me while I sweep it up.  Laundry, he helps me with grabbing all the dirty towels around the house and putting them in the laundry room as well as when I finish putting laundry away, such as putting his socks in his drawer.  When we're all done,  he pushes the laundry baskets back to the laundry room for me.  As for the dishwasher, he hands me all the silverware while I organize it in the drawer (except for the knives, I grab those first before he does).  =)

- Hunter is obsessed with his blanky's.  I think he has 5 or 6 of them. I have found that the more blanky's he has in his crib when I put him down to bed, the faster he falls asleep. Then I go back into his room about 15 minutes later once he has fallen asleep and take some of them out because because he ends up getting too hot but he averages about 3.  I have to keep about 2 or 3 in there or else he will wake up in the middle of the night wondering where they are and will cry for them.  Yes, he notices.  He could care less about his plush monkey or rabbit.  It's all about the blanky's.  I keep a spare one in the car when we go on a car ride that I know he may try and take a nap and it definitely helps! He also gets mad if we cuddle up to any one of his blanky's.  He definitely has his stamp on them so no one will touch but him!



Sitting in my "Tot Spot" chair with my blanky.



As you can see there are 3 here on the couch while we read books and play some before bed.



- Hunter knows pretty much all of his body parts.  He knows where his eyes, nose, mouth, head, ears, feet and belly are.  He has now officially learned where his booty is and sticks it out when we quiz him on his body parts.  With that being said, sometimes, he likes to quiz mommy of my body parts by touching them.  He will touch my mouth, eyes (eye lids..have to watch for this one), ears, head, feet, belly and then when it comes to my booty, he won't touch it! Good man.  He will stick his out and make me say what it is!  So funny, I never taught him that.  I am raising a natural gentleman.

Here is a video that Sean took of him while they were at the park the other day.  Hunter can climb up the stairs to get to the slide all by himself- over and over again.  This wears him out by the way.