Joel, Joel, Joel!

Oh Joel! Seriously, this child constantly surprises me. Today, we set out to make Valentine's Day cookies, and in the process, I couldn't get the vanilla open. I stood in the kitchen for a few minutes trying with all of my might to get the bottle open. Joel, standing by my side like any good assistant, watching and playing in the flour. I said, "Joel, we are going to have to open this with pliers, come on." When I finally found the pliers and got the bottle open, Joel said, "Mommy, I so proud of you." And gave me a big hug. I guess he could see that I was really trying to open that bottle of vanilla. :) That not to mention that he knows that you need to press down the brown sugar when you are measuring it. I guess he has had lots of practice helping make cookies! We do love homemade cookies! Then, when he got tired of helping me with the cookies, he decided to turn on the tv, and watch Nemo. He was loving it, just chuckling away. I started on dinner and then went back in to check on him, and tell him it was time to turn off the tv. He had turned the tv off, opened the Nemo dvd that we borrowed from my sister forever ago, ejected a different dvd out of the dvd drive in the computer, put in the Nemo dvd and was sitting at the computer trying to figure out how to get it come up on the screen when I walked in! He could hear it but couldn't see it. This from my 2 year old son, who is growing up Oh so fast. Happy Valentine's Day Joel. You are the cutest!