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The Maws sent a package recently and it had a cool art project for Easton. He was super excited to do it and I held it over him as a bribe a time or two ("If you don't put on your shoes right now we can't do animals when we come home"). But not for too long as it was a special gift. So yesterday afternoon we sat down to paint the wooden animals:


Just look at that look of concentration:




They got googley eyed and glittered and put on little painted stands:


And then we put them on the shelf in his room:


So, in the evening I tried some green beans for the first time with Dalton. You wouldn't know from this face that he despised them.


And I absolutely love when he makes this face:

Love that little scrunch.

I even worked with him on the Puffs. He did better. He can put them in his mouth himself, which is probably part of the problem. But if I put it in between his teeth he kind of gets that he should maybe mush them up a bit. It went okay. I gave him some this morning too:


And last night Jason was reading over the list of appropriate behaviors and milestones that I had thrown in the trash. One was, "May begin to crawl up stairs". So, Jason wanted to see if Dalton could. And he can. Great. Now we'd better get those annoying baby gates back out.

What else? This morning we went to the liquor store first thing. I needed some beer for the roast I've got going in the Crock Pot. It made me sad that other people needed other things from that store to start their days. I had no idea the liquor store opened earlier than Target. Anyway...

After D's first nap we headed out to the library and Target and now we're trying to do quiet time but Easton's not exactly being quiet today. He's even had to have a time out.

I bet if we hadn't painted the animals yesterday I could get him to be quiet for quiet time today.

I guess that's why some "experts" tell you not to use such, "If you ___, then ___" threats with your kids.

What do they know?