Canola Oil and Marble Floors

The other day I was in the other room finishing up a little work for the day and Dean was playing in his room, or so I thought…

 

All of a sudden I hear little distressed whimpers coming from the kitchen, so I go to investigate why Dean is whimpering as it isn’t like him. As I turn the corner into the kitchen, there is Dean covered head to toe in Canola oil, slipping and sliding all over the marble floors that are also covered in Canola oil.

 

As his fine motor skills have improved he was able to screw the top off a full bottle of Canola oil and somehow spilled the entire bottle all over the floor and himself. His socks are now soaked in oil, and whenever he tries to stand up his little feet fail him.

 

I of course spring right into action and scare Dean a bit in the process. By this time he thinks he has done something wrong and is now crying and looking at me like he is so… sorry. His little face and expression are too cute, I can’t help but pull him into my arms, oil and all, giving him big kisses and hugs, telling him it’s all right. Now we are both covered in oil and laughing. I proceed to remove Dean’s oil drenched socks and we both get to work cleaning, covering the floors with paper towels.

 

So there we are, Dean and I on our hands and knees, cleaning the kitchen floor and having a great old time, laughing and slipping and sliding. It will be a moment I will remember forever. And not to mention a pretty funny story that I can embarrass him with when he starts dating… oh yes, there is a purpose for this blog after all 

 

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“Color”

Dean loves to color these days, and on Easter the bunny brought him a new set of crayons, probably one of his favorite items in his easter basket. When he saw the crayons he said "color" and his little tounge fliped out of his mouth so he could pronounce the "l" perfectly. I was so… impressed  Below is the picture he drew so you all can see how talented he is. He’s definately a budding artist!!!

 

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Where’s Mama?

Dean started doing the cuttest thing, so cute that I had to write it down. We read books with him all the time now, he insists on it. When we read to him we are always asking him to point things out on the page that he reconginizes. We’ll say, "where’s the hat" and he’ll point to it and say "hat". So the other day when someone asked him "where is mommy", he walked right up to me and put his little finger on me and said "mama." He has even gone so far as to bypass pointing me out in pictures, I’ll ask where’s mommy while we are looking at a photo book together and he will literally turn and look at me, put his index finger on my arm and say "mama." He knows the real thing when he sees it.

 

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A kid in a toy store

The other day Dean, Joe and I went to Target to pick up a few things and while in the store Dean and I wandered into the toy section. He went from one toy to the next with wide eyes, saying "oh wow" with every few steps he took. Some toys would cause him to literally stop in his tracks, his little body would tense up and he would point and attempt to tell me something about the toy that had caught his attention. I was blown away by Dean’s ability to recongnize many of the different characters from some of the popular kids programs. He recongnized Elmo saying "melmo;" Dora and Deigo; Lightning McQueen and Mater; Little Bear and probably more than that, but those were the ones I was able to catch onto. The good news is that we were able to get out of the store without purchasing a single toy, don’t ask me how we did that.  

 

Below is a sampling of Dean’s art, a recent picture he colored of melmo at Daycare. 

 

 

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