Mommy's big helper

Peter is great at chores.  He can't do anything totally on his own but I love that he loves to help me out.  His current list of tasks includes:

- emptying the dishwasher of clean dishes

- sweeping the floor



- moving clothes from the washer to the dryer

- cleaning up legos, crayons, etc and putting them back in their proper container

He really likes to move things back and forth in general so if I take him out on the porch he will pick up every leaf and throw it off the porch.  Pretty handy. 

What goes around comes around...

My mom loves to tell about how my favorite phrase as a toddler was "Jessie do dat".  I have
always been independent and even from a young age I apparently knew that I could do things
better than everyone else ;-)!  Well.... Peter has a new favorite phrase... "I do it". 
Sometimes it is variations of that phrase such as, "I fix it", "I have it", or the celebratory
"I did it!". He doesn't want you to help him with anything and if he sees you trying to do
something, he will undoubtedly try to take over.  It's quite cute. Unless I am in a hurry. Or
cooking something hot. Or trying to fix something that could get broken. But most of the time,
it's cute. 

Counting...

Peter has been at Camp Mimi for a week now and he always learns something significant when he goes at stays.  At 11 months we left him for four days and he learned to crawl.  At 15 months we stayed with them while I got my wisdom teeth out and he started walking.  And now he is counting (sort of) and saying his ABC's (sort of) I'm still trying to catch him counting but here's a good attempt at his ABC's

Yesterday was Father's Day.  I can not believe how the Lord has blessed me.  Not only do I have the best father ever

AND... my father's father is an amazing man and Peter has the opportunity to know him too

AND... I married a man who is a wonderful father to our child.



Happy Father's Day!!

Last week Peter went to Camp Mimi from Saturday to Saturday while Paul and I were at Youth Camp from Monday to Friday.   Last summer we left him for four days while we went to a wedding.  But this is only the second time we have left him for more than overnight.  When we dropped him off Saturday I cried and cried.  I'm sure the other moms out there know how I feel.  I tried to explain it to Paul but I don't think I did a very good job.  Right now, Peter is my job.  My days are consumed by what he eats, when he sleeps, what he is doing.  It was like I left a piece of me behind when I left him.  Paul did a good job of keeping me busy that day so I could kind of get over it.  Now don't get me wrong, I missed him so much that week. But I had an amazing time at camp!  I'm a mom.  It's what I do and it's who I am.  And I love it.  But for those five days of camp I was just a follower of Jesus.  I could worship and fellowship undistracted.  And Peter seemed to have an amazing time.  Mommas, if you have a chance, I highly recommend it!!


This haircut really has me thinking

Today Peter had his first haircut.  I've been thinking about getting it cut for a couple of weeks now so it wasn't like it snuck up on me but now that it is done I feel... sad... Don't get me wrong though, it looks great.  Our friend Penny from church did an AMAZING job.  She made Peter so comfortable and he didn't fuss at all.  It was just what I wanted, trimmed all over and left long in the back.  He is rocking the baby mullet! But everyday he looks more and more like a kid and less and less like a baby and this haircut really brings it out.  I really want to try and be better about updating the blog since he is changing so much now. 

Video of the haircut to come later....