Music?

Ok, so we’ve been super busy around here lately.  We were planning to put our house up for sale in May and then my husband got the brilliant idea to have it ready by the time of the community garage sale!  When meant that we had three weeks to finish everything!  It’s been a long exhausting “sprint”, but we are finally done and our house is up!  I actually have one more thing to tackle…but have to wait until the weather cooperates.

Anyway…during our “sprint” towards the “finish” I’ve been painting two bedrooms and the living room and hallway.  Well the story I have to share today about Luke happened while I was doing all this painting.  No…Luke didn’t get into any paint…thankfully!!  But he did show me he was capable of some good OT skills!

While doing all this painting I used a radio with a CD player to keep me company.  I would leave this in the room I was working in, so I didn’t have to haul it all over the place all the time.  I thought this was brilliant, unitl one day I was down the hall (not sure what I was doing) and it was quiet and then all of a sudden music started playing!  I couldn’t figure it out.  Then I remembered the Radio/CD player in our bedroom and went to “investigate”.  Low and behold, there was Luke sitting right next to the radio/CD player smiling really big at me.  It was like he said “look what I can do mommy?!”  I just laughed and asked how in the world he did that.  It was then that I remembered that I had my “CD” on pause while I did some other things in the other room. 

Luke obviously didn’t like the quiet and wanted some music!  Not only that, but I soon realized that not only did Luke start the music, but he must not have liked the song because he skipped a couple to get to the current one!  Silly little man!

After this day, I caught him a couple more times trying to do this little “trick”.  One day he even paused the music and changed the volume for me!

My little helper

Our little man is turning into a true blue “helper”.  Luke’s been slowly making progress with his understanding of things.  But the other day he totally surprised me.  I was putting both kids down for a nap, usually I put Luke down first but this day I put down our baby girl first instead.  I was busy changing our daughter’s diaper and saw that we didn’t have all our “nap buddies”.  (Our daughter has to have her babies, all three, blanket, small pillow, and blue stuffed monkey).  The baby that is her absolute favorite was missing.  So I put our daughter in her crib and Luke followed me as I looked in the living room.  When I found the baby, I looked at Luke and thought “why not try it”….so I held out the baby and asked Luke to take it to his sister.  Sure enough, he grabbed the baby and crawled down the hallway while holding on to the baby.  I followed him as he continued down the hallway and into our daughter’s room.  Then he said “baba…baba…baba” and got on his knees and handed the baby to his sister.  Then she (as only a 2 year old could say), “thannnkk you brobber”.  It was a sight to behold!

Then, later in the afternoon after their naps I went to change out the diaper pail trash.  I got two bags out of Luke’s closet that are supposed to be “deodorizers”.  I put one on the floor in Luke’s room and then took the other to our daughter’s room to change out the bags.  By the time I came back to Luke’s room, I looked for the bag and it wasn’t where I left it!!  I looked all over his room, and then I looked at the diaper pail….and there was the bag, pushed down on the top part where you put diapers.  Luke was trying to help me out and put the bag in the only area he knew of to get it inside.  What a helper!

Late on that same day I lost Luke’s Sippy cup.  When he got up from his nap I looked and looked and it was nowhere to be found.  Well, I gave up and figured I’d find it sometime and got him a new cup.  It wasn’t until the following day around lunch when I emptied out the dishwasher and I found his cup.  Luke had put it in the bottom section between a plate and a pot, I guess he was trying to make sure it got clean…only problem was the juice cup was still full of juice/water when he put the cup in the wash!

He sure is a silly little guy, but he’s turning out to be a pretty good helper too!