I love my Aaron more than words can express but seriously this kid is killing me lately. Maybe I'm just experiencing life with a busy boy but man I can't keep up. I should have had Aaron when I was 20 and physically fit. He's in to everything. It's beyond the dump and go stage. I turn my back and he's in the pantry pouring himself a floor full of cereal. While I am cleaning it up he's pulled a bag of chips off the counter dumped them on the floor breaking them apart for the pure enjoyment of hearing them crack. I know in a year or two I'll be thankful for his tallness because I won't have to lift him up to things like public bathroom sinks but for now it's hard that he can reach so many things. Don't ask me how he can open my heavy refrigerator door but he loves to open all the fruit drawers and take out all the ball looking fruit (apples, oranges etc) and throw them or roll them across the floor or open the drawer and use it as a basketball hoop to throw them back in. Speaking of throwing he thinks chucking his sipping cup across the table, floor or at his sisters is so entertaining. Believe me this kid has an arm so when you see him put his sipping up to his chin like it's a shot put its best to hit the deck. No joke Aaron with his He-Man skills pulled so hard on my flour drawer that he completely broke the child safety latch. Since then Aaron's been having a grand time tracking flour around. Not to mention how happy he was when he found a screw and put it in the hole of the pantry door and got the privacy lock undone. I should sign him up for the kid tester for child proof objects. The product can only pass if it holds up against Aaron. In the last couple of weeks he's learned how grand it is to climb. I've found him in situations like sitting on my bathroom counter turning on the hot water. I try hard but I can't keep him off the dining room table. The other day he fell trying to get on it and I thought well maybe he'll learned his lesson and will stay off. Sure enough I let him down and he goes straight back to the chair with this determined look that he is not going to let that table get the best of him.
Just when I feel like I'm at my wits end he'll turn on his charm and I melt into love with him again. Like when I come in the door from work and he drops anything he is doing and runs over full of giggles, smiles and loves just for me. Or when he's hanging out in his highchair while I'm doing the dishes and I'll look over at him and he'll flash me his big Aaron smile and say Hi aa while waving at me. It tickles me when he is in my arms and I'm talking to someone and he wants my attention. He will put his face right in front of me until our noses are touching and I'm looking right at him and he'll jabber and point until I know what it is he wants. Or at night when it's time for bed and we sit in the rocking chair after we've read books with the lights off and he'll put his head on my shoulder and sing primary songs with me.
I guess it's very nice to be killed softly with Aaron's love!
