The Many Adventures of Tavita

Anyone that has spent 5 minutes with Tavita knows that life is never dull when he is around. The boy has some seriously amazing abilities to get into mishchief as well as the agility and climbing abilities of a monkey. This is the boy that will climb to the top bunk and then superman dive into his crib. The pain never deters him. I'll pull him out crying, set him down and he makes a break for the bunk bed again. I'm telling you, if he lives to see his 3rd birthday it'll be amazing (he turns 2 in two weeks so I'm giving him at least that long :-). Anyway, just wanted to share 3 of his latest adventures with you.
1. Binky Obsession: this boy is hopless when it comes to his binky. He'd have it in his mouth all day everyday if I let him. Two problems, #1 he's getting too old to walk around with that thing plugged in all the time. #2 (the bigger of the 2 problems) whenever he talks, he talks like he has a binky in his mouth. Anyway, for these reasons I don't let him have his binky unless he's sleeping. Due to his addiction, I have to hide the binky or else he'll go to any length to get it. I had placed his binky behind a few things on my bathroom vanity thinking it was sufficently hidden. I then found him hiding in my hamper sucking away. I don't know how he managed to climb on to the counter, get the binky, slip into the hamper and replace the lid without knocking the hamper over.



2. Goo-Gone Disaster: One morning I was racing around trying to get the boy's shoes on to take Brayden to preschool. I litterally turned my back on Tavita long enough to slip Brayden's shoes only to turn around and find him gone. I went up stairs and heard a gurgling sound like something slowly being dumped out. I raced into my bedroom and found Tavita ontop of my desk dumping Goo-Gone Gel everywhere. I had set the goo-gone on a windowsill, well out of reach, or so I thought. He somehow managed to get ahold of it and was doing a lovely job of dumping and smearing it everywhere. Of course he didn't do this without tasting a little first. His breath reaked of it. While I was frantically trying to clean up the disaster and call poison control at the same time he proceeded to try to eat a little tub of lip balm (I took it away) he immediately tried eating a candle (I took it away) he then started climbing after the lip balm again. In the end, after a hot soapy bath, a lot of juice, and 6 hours of sitting right next to him to make sure his breathing was okay he pulled through perfectly fine; as he has with all other predicaments he gets himself into.

3. Potty-training: Tavita has decided he wants to start familiarizing himself with the whole toilet thing. He's not consisently using it but since he was showing so much interest when Brayden went I thought I'd pull the training potty out so it was there for him to see. He's used it a couple times and was very excited with himself. A couple other times he asks to go even when he doesn't need to. He sits there grunting, straining, pushing on his stomach, taking the toilet apart and getting very frustrated with himself that he can't go. I try to tell him what a great job he did trying and encourage him to just try later but he refuses to let it go. I'm really worried that he's going to wind up hating potty-training because he doesn't succeed everytime he wants to go. Anyway, I snapped this cute picture. I guess he's succumbed to the fact that if he wants to go on demand rather than by need, he needs to plan on staying awhile and comes quite well-equipped for the job.

As exahusting as this boy can be, I can't help but to love this adorable boy and all the excitement he adds to our life.