A good example would be Ellie's recent growth at coloring.
In the past, whenever someone would set a picture in front of her to color,
Ellie's reaction would be to scribble away with nary a thought of making things
look nice. The older she's gotten though, the more pride she takes in her art. Nowadays, Ellie's pictures really are special. She always stays within the
lines and even will change colors to suit the picture.
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| An Ellie original |
Even though Ellie's coloring is a good example of the topic
at hand, it's not the first one that comes to mind. The first one actually
revolves around Ethan and one of the world's simplest tasks: getting a drink of
water.
Most of the time, Ethan can drink water like a champ. It
doesn't matter if it's from his special cup or a water bottle. He's even been
known to drink a tiny amount of water from a normal cup with no problems.
However, there are certain receptacles that a one-year-old should never try to
drink from. Namely, their mommy's work cup.
However, since that cup remains in our bedroom/Bethany's home office at
all times, there's no reason for that to be a legitimate concern, right? Wrong!
Flashback to Wednesday around the 5:00 hour. Bethany had
just gotten off work and we were working together to get supper on the table. I
was outside grilling some extremely pitiful hamburgers while Bethany prepared
some asparagus and tater tots as a side. I'm serious about the hamburgers being
pitiful. While they tasted fine, there was literally no binding them together
so it was all I could do to keep them in halfway decent shape as I grilled.
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| TATER TOTS!!! |
In between flipping the burgers, I wandered inside to see
how things were going for Bethany. Very quickly though, I noticed that Ethan
was nowhere to be found. If it were Ellie, I wouldn't be concerned but Ethan
has a penchant for mischief. Out of curiosity, I asked Bethany where he was.
Her humorous response was something along the lines of, "Wait, we have two
kids?". It was then that Ethan made his appearance at the top of the
stairs.
The first thing I noticed is that he was proudly clutching
Bethany's metal water cup. Not thinking much about it, I proceeded to ask
Bethany if her cup was empty or not. When she responded that it did indeed have
water left in it, I knew we might be in trouble. As if it was completely
intentional, Ethan chose that moment to set the cup down and let us all see the
result of his thirst.
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| Wet, wet, wet. |
For starters, a 20 oz water cup is a bit large for a
toddler. That's especially true when it's more than half full. In his quest for
water, Ethan had soaked his shirt, his pants, and the carpet in the bedroom. In
fact, it was so bad that he required a full wardrobe change before dinner.
Bethany also had to spend several minutes sopping up water from our bedroom
floor with an old towel before returning to the kitchen.
I'd like to say Ethan learned his lesson about drinking from
a cup that is too large for him. However, that's just not true. In fact, less
than ten minutes later, he had the cup in his possession once again. The lone
saving grace being that it was empty on that occasion.
On second thought, that was probably just a saving grace for
Bethany and me. For Ethan, I'm sure he was dismayed to find that his thirst
could not be quenched on that occasion. Poor little guy. Life's just so very
hard for him sometimes. #DaddyWrite
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