Wordless Wednesday

Start of Summer

Memorial weekend always signifies the start of our summer at the lake.  This year was no different.  We loaded up and despite the gale force winds we still had a great time.

Corbin played around, threw some rocks, bravely went in for a cool swim, and rode in the boat. 

This is the start of summer…yahoo!

Animals Beware

Apparently Corbin has begun potty training…with his stuffed animals. 

We were playing in his room with his animals, when he promptly turned over Kangaroo and announced that Kangaroo had a poopy.  I encouraged him to run Kangaroo to the potty (of course!).

I’m  happy to announce Kangaroo made it…just in time;)

So once Kangaroo went successfully on the potty all the other animals needed to go as well, so said Corbin.

Corbin would turn over the animals and look at their bottom.  Here Giraffe is getting a quick check…yup it’s potty time.  Oh my!

And it’s logical that once all the animals have pottied that they all climb into the sink and have community bath time!?! 

Disregarding the odd bath situation, Corbin proved to be a patient, kind, caring, and responsible potty trainer.  I hope that I can follow in his footsteps when I begin the process with Corbin!

Some Firsts…

On Monday Corbin had his first experience with paints.  A friend came by and brought paint supplies and we let Corbin have at it. 

He took to the paints right away.  Much to my surprise he dipped his little fingers right in there and begin smearing away.  However, once he discovered the brushes next to the paints he decided that those were a better option and his hands needed to be wiped right away;)  Ahh, love my little neat and tidy guy.

Here’s his finished project:

Then today he had another first…not such a good one.  Corbin has been testing limits and wanting to discover more and more for himself.  He has been told repeatedly not to touch the stove when I’m cooking because it is hot.  He’s always done a great job respecting that, until today.  I was making him a quesadilla for lunch and out of the blue he comes running into the kitchen and grabs the hot pan.

Ouch!!

He of course was stunned and upset by what happened, but his hand seems to be doing fine.

Although I never wanted this to happen I hope that now he truly understands what “hot” means and why we don’t touch the stove.

Well, some firsts are good and some firsts are bad, but having firsts both good and bad are part of life.  So Corbin just had a chance to experience and grow a little bit more this week.

Steak Lover

This evening we had steak for dinner.  Corbin was so excited!  He waited at the door for it to come off the grill and in the house.  Once on his plate, he devoured his first helping and then asked for more.  Once his second helping was on the plate, I kid you not, he leaned down and “hugged” his steak and then gave it multiple kisses.  Wow, that’s showing your food some love:)

Accolades

Lately, when Corbin has been awakening from his naps he will lay in his crib and say the alphabet, count his numbers, or sing a song.  After he completes one of the above items he gives himself an enormous round of applause, a huge “yea!”, and then often a “good job!”  And I do mean these are loud claps, hollers of "yea”, and shouts of “good job”…nothing timid about his shouts of praise for himself;)

Yes, he’s already developing a healthy self-esteem:)  That’s good, there’s nothing wrong with giving yourself some claps and cheers for a song well sung or the alphabet well said. 

I applaud you Corbin for cheering on yourself when no one else is around to do that.  I hope you always continue to do that!

Wordless Wednesday and Sidenote

I’m so thankful Wordless Wednesdays exist because without those I would have one less day in my blog books:)  We’ve been busy and I’ve just lost some motivation to blog…yikes!  I think my school classes are just zapping me.  It was a tough spring semester and the summer semester, although it’s just begun, is going to be full of assignments and readings.  So to my few and faithful blog readers, the blogging might be slowing down for awhile (as I’m sure you’ve noticed) but at least we’ll always have wordless Wednesday (we hope:).