Will the perfect trash can ever be found?

Have you ever wondered if there could be a perfect trash can?  I’ve been thinking on this a lot lately.  No…I’m not obsessed with trash cans.  But once again I find myself trying to come up with something that won’t be penetrated by my very clever 4 year old. 

At first I had to buy a new trash can because Luke had learned to lift the lid of our old one.  So we replaced the old one with a new trash can that has a button on the top that then releases the lid.  Well this worked for about a year, then Luke figured out how to push the button on top so that the lid would release.  So then I tried turning the trash can around so he couldn’t reach the button.  That has worked until this last week when Luke decided that turning around the trash can wouldn’t stop him!

Luke has learned to simply turn the trash can around and then press the button in order to open the lid.  Then he quickly throws a toy or his juice into the can and then shuts the lid quickly.  Amazingly he doesn’t this very quick, so quick that it took me a couple time to figure out that I didn’t leave the lid open myself. 

Silly guy!  So now I am trying to think of some way around this new predicament.  My husband says to simply put duct tape over the lid and side….maybe we’ll try that.  A quick fix…for now.

What's that?

So we all know Luke has an interesting sense of humor.  Well the other day my husband was playing with some of his new “toys”.  I got him some mini flashlights that were on sale at the Bass Pro Shop the day about Thanksgiving.  My husband was bundling up to go outside and had one of these flashlights in the palm of his hand.   I had my back turned to the kitchen and was microwaving some things, when I heard Luke laugh.  I turned and saw Luke sitting on the kitchen floor, looking towards the door to the garage and he was quiet.  Then he laughed again when a beam of light hit his face.  I then looked to the door and saw my husband standing there pointing the flashlight at Luke.  He continued to tease Luke by turning the light on and off.  Which Luke found to be hilarious.  Silly guys!  I tried getting some of this on video, of course Luke doesn’t always “perform on command”.

Oh My!

Speaking as the youngest of four, I know that siblings can be really fun or really obnoxious.  I love them all, but being the youngest I often was picked on, hung upside down and chased around so much that it became quite normal for me to be picked on.  I’m trying to keep this in mind now as I am encountering sibling relationships at a different angle.  I watch Luke and our baby girl get along great when they are hiding things around the house.  I also see them scream/cry at each other when the other takes something or does something the other doesn’t like.

A great example of this happened just today.  I was getting lunch ready when our baby girl came in the kitchen, I told her to get in her chair.  (She is about to crawl up and put herself in her booster seat, which is so great).  I went back to putting the finishing touches on lunch when I hear our girl scream/cry and I look and she is trying to push Luke away.  So I went over and told Luke to leave her alone, and even moved him to the opposite side of the kitchen.  I went back to getting lunch ready and I hear another scream/cry, and I look…and there she is trying to push Luke away again!  I think Luke was being a big brother and either trying to bully away her chair or try to help her up….which she didn’t want.  Finally, I just grabbed our baby girl and put her in her chair…then Luke started his scream/cry…so I put him in his chair too.  It was finally quiet and I was able to finish cutting up the chicken for lunch. 

But one of the funniest things I’ve seen happen between the two kids happened about a week ago.  I had given our baby girl a small bowl with Club mini crackers earlier in the day.  Usually she does fine and keeps the crackers to herself or sometimes she’ll even hand one at a time to Luke in order to share them.  Which is really sweet to watch by the way…except when Luke decides to throw the cracker after it has been given to him.

Anyway, on this particular day, I come in the living room and check on the kids and what do I find?  They are laughing, like they like to do…only when I focused in on what was happening, I had to laugh too.  Our baby girl was giving her brother crackers, only instead of handing them over she was putting them down the back of his shirt!  I was so funny.  I had to put a stop to it though.  When I changed Luke’s diaper later before his nap, guess what I found?  Yep…a mini cracker!  Silly kids!

Sweet Music

So our little guy just turned 4 years old.  I can hardly believe it!  One of his gifts was an electric drum.  Luke decided to rock out right away.  He pushed the pre-music rock button and started hitting the drums.  Our little girl decided to jump right in and play with him.  Thankfully there are two drum sticks so I could give both kids one so we didn’t fight over them. 

Luke’s always loved music…who knows maybe he’ll be in a rock band one day!

Santa!

So, I’m not a huge one for the whole “Santa” thing and didn’t really think about taking the kids to see him, but one day my husband comes home and says “we have to take the kids to see Santa!”  I have to admit, I was a little shocked by this.  So I asked him “why would we do that?”  Then he told me where we would take the kids to see Santa, at the new Bass Pro Shop!  Yep…the Bass Pro Shop was going to have Santa and we just had to take the kids!

So the day came and we took the kids to see Santa.  We were walking along the line to see Santa so that we could get in line at the end.  Luke was in his walker and we were going along just fine when my husband says “help your son”.  I look down and Luke is standing there and his pants are around his ankles!  Yikes!!  The lady by us that was standing in line said something about him streaking….boy was I thinking I was the worst mom ever! 

Turns out that the inside adjustable waist button came undone…so the pants just dropped!  I’m glad that Luke is too young to remember the embarrassment of the whole thing.  The good part was that the kids both didn’t scream at Santa and sat nicely for a picture.

Silly Daddy!

I know I usually talk about how silly Luke is…well sometimes I think I’m pretty silly myself.  Although the other night I couldn’t help but think “silly daddy”. 

My husband and I were doing baths.  As usual we split the job, I washed Luke and handed him over to daddy.  Then I washed our baby girl and finished getting her ready for bed.  By the time I finished with our baby girl and we went in to Luke’s room so we could pray together before going to bed, I found an “interesting scene”. 

Before entering the room I heard Luke’s laughter along with my husbands, but I figured Luke was being his normal silly self and trying to bounce up and down or something.  Although when I actually got to look at what was going on, I found something I’d never seen before.  Luke was laying down and then sat up, but once he did and his daddy put his hand out…he fell back and laughed.  When looking at the scene at first I thought my husband was pushing Luke back down with his hand, but actually Luke felt his hand and fell back on his own.  It was pretty funny.

I managed to catch this on video.  

Silly Girl!

Today I have to talk about our baby girl.  She has been doing some of the silliest things lately.  The other day was pretty funny, so I have to share it.  We were all in the kitchen, and all of a sudden our baby girl decided to sit on the floor and use her feet to move herself in a circle…all while keeping her “behind” in the same position.  It was so cute and funny!

Of course I tried to get this little “act” on video and she didn’t want to perform for me…although I caught her starting to do it!