My son was playing in the bathroom this morning (don’t make me explain how/why he was…that’s totally another post…) and he started doing as he sometimes does: grabbing the lever which turns the tub water on. Don’t stress, he wasn’t in the tub. I let him try to turn it because he rarely does, but when he gets it pulled just right and the water comes pouring out, his expression is priceless.

Well, he’s standing there jerking on the lever…and it pops off in his hand. He turns to me with this really confused and slightly scared look in his face. How do you respond so that a child knows that what he did is not okay, but that he’s not in trouble – and that it is actually something pretty funny? I don’t know. I tried. I was laughing too hard…but I tried.

I wonder if he’ll ever touch that lever again….

So after I got home from class my wife had put both sons to bed and we were getting ready to knock out ourselves when our oldest started crying – again. Apparently he had been crying on and off for over an hour. My wife suggested maybe giving him a teething tablet, because it was probably his teeth hurting him. So I grabbed a couple of tablets and took ‘em in to him.

Only, the lights were out it was one of the nights where his room was pitch black. The only way to give the tablets to him was to stick my hand in his crib and find his mouth and insert them. I thought it was interesting he was just lying on his back crying, but I just thought it was because he was so tired and yet in such pain he couldn’t sleep.

Well, his crying only got worse and woke up our newest addition to the household. So my wife went in to check on the oldest again. And found that he had gotten his leg stuck in the bars of the crib. Yeh, he’d probably been stuck that way for the last hour. And to add insult to injury, when I came in, I just stuck something in his mouth and left him. He was upset, to understate it.

So I got him unstuck and rocked him back to sleep. He doesn’t seem mad at me or anything this morning…but next time he’s in there crying so long, I’ll definitely check all his limbs before going back to bed.

Okay, I just wanted to share one of my favorite Keaton pics with you. The picture below has been cropped just around him so you can see his expression, and how I somehow managed to capture him in full motion. The funniest part, to me, is that he looks like he has no thumb because of how he’s holding his hand. You can click on the pic below to view the full picture in all it’s 9MP glory…

Here's my little man running wild!