Our life with Joseph

Four days Until Christmas!

I can’t believe how close Christmas is. Every year it sneaks up a little faster on me. I was telling Jordan the other day that Christmas isn’t as exciting for me as it was when I was yonger, and he said its probably because we are much more aware of the world around us, where when we are little, the only thing we focus on is everything do to with Christmas, especially presents. As a parent you get to start passing that joy on to your little ones so that they can experience the Christmas joy every year.

Christmas around our house has been interesting this year. We have to constantly watch Joseph(like going into the kitchen to get a glass of water while he is unoccupied could be fatal) We are missing a lot of the Christmas balls off of our tree because well a lot of them are missing their tops. One was also lost in action because Joseph threw it against our patio window, cauding it to smash. Other onaments and bows are routinely taken off if as I mentioned before Joseph is left a long for too long of a period. He also thinks that he enjoys candy canes and is constantly asking for candy, however if you give him some he will suck it for a moment, then chew and then proceed to spit it out on the floor, or your hand, or his hand but then he will wipe it all over his clothes or the couch.  Another fun thing was the advent calendar. He knows it holds chocolate and at the beginning of the month he did not grasp the one a day concept. So we really had to watch him to avoid him grabbing anything that would give him a little more height so that he could hopefully reach the calendar, luckily he never succeeded!

We already knew we had a busy boy, but we didn’t quite comprehend how well busy and terrible two’s could go hand in hand. He will be with me in the bathroom, and if I don’t glance over almost every single second from doing my hair or make-up, there could be a problem like unrolling the toilet paper into the toilet, sticking his hand into vaseline or diaper cream, squirting my loition or mousse all over the place. Until you have met my son and seen him in action you truly have no idea of how fast he can be, it literally takes seconds. So after twice finding him in the upstairs hallway with my liquid laundry soap that has a pump, pumping soap all over my floor and other objects, needless to say, all the upstairs doors have child locks on them. Our door, the bathroom and the laundry room on the outside, and his bedroom, it’s on the inside.

It’s a good thing we love our little monkey so much because there are many a day that we almost pull our hair out!!

His fat lip from falling and biting down on his lip!