Good Little Helper

Mason was so cute after we got home today. I asked him if he wanted to help me get the mail, so he drug his little tricycle out of the garage and rode it clear to the end of the driveway (maybe 10 yards) while trying to hold on to his blankets. After he helped me open the mailbox and pull the mail out, he had to hold on to that while he pedaled back up to the garage. Luckily he let me hold his blankets on the way back, but he still had a hard time holding the mail and steering the tricycle. Then he took the keys and unlocked the door for me. He dropped the mail on the stairs but at least he tried!

He has been really good with saying left or right when he points the direction we should turn when driving home. He doesn't always point in the direction of our home, but I guess that means he wants to explore the area a little more!

I mentioned his blankets earlier. He didn't really like blankets for a long time. My mom made him a nice fleece blanket for Christmas in 07 and it took him several months to even let me cover him with it. After a while he really started to like it and then decided that he loved the two blankets that we take to daycare for his naps. One is a Blue's Clues blanket and the other is red with zoo animals. They were left on my doorstep one day by a lady that I Visit Taught who was moving out of town and her son didn't need them anymore. I decided they'd be great for daycare since they didn't really have sentimental value and I wasn't worried about losing them or having to wash them a million times! Well, he is hardly able to part with those blankets now! We can no longer leave them at daycare all week, but he has to take them home every night! In the morning they go with him to the living room. During the day he tries to put them up on the counter and at night he falls asleep on the floor with them (he seldom falls asleep in his bed). If he knows they're in the washer, he'll go down and watch them spin around. It's always fun to watch him cuddle with them when they're warm from the dryer.

The teachers at daycare reported today that he had olives at snack time! I've tried to give them to him before (not recently), but he's never even touched them. I was glad to hear that he tried something new today! He was probably starving since he didn't eat lunch. The hotdog octopus probably made him dry heave! He's a crazy kid! Speaking of eating--Tristyn has taken after her brother and loves string cheese! She'll eat it has fast as I can cut it up. She also likes the diced Gerber apples. I'm excited that she seems to like most everything we put in front of her. That's very refreshing!

I guess I better drag Mason away from the DVR'd Blue's Clues and get him to bed so he can snuggle with the blanket Blue. I swear he's on his 6th episode tonight! At least it entertained him while I fed Tristyn string cheese and blogged, right!? He's learned to say happy and sad from the show recently--so that's the other way I justify it!