Eaten Out of House and Home

Is this normal? We had a couple housesit while we were gone over Thanksgiving and they ate us out of house and home! These two people ate entire boxes of unopened goldfish, vanilla wafers, graham crackers, cheese crackers, 2 lbs of lunch meat, 4 bag of chips, 30 eggs, an entire bowl of Halloween candy, 2 pkgs of Hersheys bars, 1 ½ gallons of milk and half of a gallon of ice cream! Here is the kicker, one is a personal trainer and another one is training for the Olympics! How could they have eaten so much crap in 6 days?!

Moving on Up

Case is moving on up in the world. As you can see he is busy mastering the stairs. Up and down he has mastered both.

P.S. I am not sure I like this Picaso thing. It took forever to figure out how to get this collage things to work and now I can't get my text to stop being centered. I don't know if this thing saves my picture edits or not. I just don't like new things! Help to those who use Picaso.

"Helper"

Remember how I said one of Cases favorite chores is “helping” with the dishes. Just look below to see what a big boy helper I have on my hands. People we are literally talking 3-4 times a day we play this game. Fun, fun, fun.

Here we are digging through the pots and pan cabinet.

Are we ready to cook? I have all the cooking utensils out and ready. Which one do you need mom?

Case even likes to put the dishes in the dishwasher after we are done. Only problem is he likes to take all the dirty dishes out and strew them all over the floor.

Ummmmmm!

I love cool whip!

Big Helper!

Case is becoming so active! He is 14 months old and has decided that ‘pulling up’ is for woosies and he's going to skip that step entirely. Instead he is trying to just flat-out-in-the-middle-of-the room stand on his own. Currently we are working on mastering the stairs. He can go up, but down is a bit harder. He is a crawling machine and loves to be chased and chasing others (sorry pets). He has even started to pretend. Whenever he pretends to drink or eat he makes little chewing noises and ends with a fake a satisfied sigh. It’s adorable to watch! He knows how to give five, wave hi and bye, tell you in gesture how big he is, give kisses (when he wants to), say dog and cat. He can even make snake noises and bird sounds on request.

Plus Case is becoming a big “helper.” Some of his favorite chores are laundry and dishes. But he also loves to throw things away and shut the trash can. He loves them so much that I leave a trash in a pile for him to dispose of whenever we are in the kitchen. His culinary skills are developing at warp speed because I can’t seem to cook anything without perching my baby on my hip. Of course he can turn lights on and off and open and shut doors like a pro. He is eating with a fork and is quite proud of himself. Spoons are a bit harder to manipulate because everything falls off, but a fork, now that is fun.

Other disgusting curiosities include a fascination with the toilet and everything that goes with it. He loves watching “stuff” go down the drain and then shutting the lid. Of course he is still a ladies’ man and is up to 5 teeth. Yup, life is busy and he is a busy bee.