My 11 1/2 month old boy has been running amok in our living room of late--and he's only crawling and pulling up.
I found our ipod in our shoe basket by the front door, and my cell phone was missing for three days.
So the naps are going well then -- congrats!
Oh this is funny! I was saying to my sister only last night that it seems I clean my house nightly, and within 10 minutes of waking up my toddler has made a big mess of things. Yesterday she threw up on the couch, smeared food on the kitchen door, chased the cat, stepped on the peas she spilled before I could clean them up, etc etc etc.. all in a span of about 30 minutes!
Wait until he finds the kitchen.
SOOO understand that feeling! I have a little boy who is getting ready to turn two and I can't believe how many messes he makes during the day. My daughter who is almost 5 still doesn't get into half of what he messes with. Some days all I can do is make an extra cup of coffee and sit with a book and fantasize what it would be like to have a maid. 
P.S. Previous post hit home...I keep seeing people move out of our neighborhood on the NW side of Detroit and my heart breaks daily. Keep up the wonderful blogging!
This is awesome, and too true for my liking.
I have to show this to my husband later. He'll love it. Our 13 month old makes short use of anything stacked neatly and beelines for the stairs at every opportunity.
that is hilarious! my 1 year old has just started rearranging the furniture (I found our ottoman in the kitchen), along with annihilating everything else in the house.
This was funny. I am impressed that you still have nice things accessible. When our oldest (he's slightly younger than Juney) was 10 months old, he started walking and destroying everything in his path. Now that our youngest is walking (he's the same age as Gram) we have reconfirmed the fact that we can't own nice things anymore. Sigh.
I live a perpetual toddler-induced disaster
I snorted coffee on my keyboard de to the newfound understanding I have of this post: my youngest is a month younger than Gram and just started crawling. TOTAL disinterest in toys.
LOVED this entry. You're a hoot! Boys are quite rambunctious.
So did Juniper not do this? If not, that is good news. I am really hoping that girls are easier (in this way at least...)
When my now 17 year-old daughter was around Juniper's age, she screamed at my husband after having been put back to bed for the zillionth time: "You'll pay for this!!!"
...so I think yes, he will BE BACK.
Wait until he's strong enough to drag the dump truck up the stairs and then attempts to ride down on it...
hahah. awesome.
How does Gram do with your stairs??
We were originally thinking of re-doing our solid wood stairs (covered with some lovely vinyl-ish substance) in floating stairs like those, but now that we have an 11 1/2 month-old we thought maybe they'd be way not baby-friendly.
And at least in our experience, girls are no different. Destruction is the ultimate goal of her life.
Girls are no different, although mine is less intent on destroying things than on distributing liquids and semi-solids throughout the house. Thank god we have wood floors and close to zero rugs, as well as a high tolerance for stickiness grime.
Your place is beautiful. Gram has his work cut out for him.
Jasper's one of those, too. How do we reprogram them so they're more like their slightly less destructive big sisters?
if someone were to program gram to travel back in time to teach his sister to do this when she was his age, I can guarantee that I wouldn't have any hair.
Like you, my eldest is a daughter and our dear son is due to arrive within the month. This made me smile. As I watch little boys playing around me, their games and actions are so different than those of my little (but extremely active) girl. My daughter can make a good mess, but it seems as though boys are bent on destruction.
Great post. Reminds me of Monday when my 3 year old came out of his room and went into the living room and said, "Oh, what a mess!" I had been too lazy to clean up the books and toys strewn about. Also, thanks to Wood for her craft blog. She inspired me to borrow a machine and I made the skirt and fuzzy blanket this weekend. Looks like I'm getting a sewing machine for my birthday. Speaking of birthdays, Happy birthday to you and to Juniper and to Gram later this month. --Jen
Matt and I thoroughly enjoyed that, too funny! Our Eames Lounge Chair is full of sticky finger prints (so's the coconut chair!)
Love it! Unfortunately it doesn't get any better when they get older. I have actually had to ask why there is a footprint on the ceiling.
Oh you parents with angelic first children crack me up.
happy birthday!
Look, you could have been cleaning instead of making movies...
(Hilarious, I might add!)
seriously, i always look at your photographs and can't believe how tidy everything is- i've started to shoot supertight or just not share pix at all as i am so embarrassed by the amount of mess everywhere in the background- pnut is 3.5 and adept at re-distributing everything she has collected up everywhere- EVERYWHERE! agh! my husband wants to throw a match to it all and start over.
we have friends whose son has a thing for screws- unscrewing them- he undid every single one on the tv cabinet w/o their knowing, until, of course, the thing collapsed during a wrestling match with his brother. boys. god love 'em.
not only can he be the gov of cali...he could be president!
I'm quite certain that my 11 month old's first words will be
"No, Felix, No"
does he give you that slightly surprised, slightly hurt look in his eyes, like, "why not mother? why not?" every time?
oh, I can't stand that look.
I totally get that look!
It kills me. I wanna be like "oh ok, go on licking the dirt off my clogs."
Nice Eames chair! Is it original? If so, better move it away from that window, because I'm coming with my glass-cutter.
I've got one of those, he just turned 71 this past December....go figure? Really funny post, I think I got all my belly laughs for today, thanks!
Welcome to the club of parenting boys my friend. Very funny. I'm sending this to my husband as I think he will definitely appreciate it.
I really hope this doesn't offend you, but this video made me think of you:
http://www.collegehumor.com/vide...m/video:
1899381
This? makes me want to have kids.
So no one asked the question I was thinking as I was reading this post. As a member of the male gender, WHY DO Y'ALL DO THIS???
I have a 5-yr old boy (no girls). He started walking at 8 months. EIGHT. MONTHS. I have no pity for you.
Welcome to the world of a boy.
This video is hilarious. My daughter was not an explorer, and I'm concerned that my son will be. Babyproofing?
Mom of 2 boys here: a nearly 3 year old and a 14 month old (who started walking about 5 months ago) so can't comment on gender difference, but these boys of mine don't sit still for a second. Move this, move that, wrestle each other, run around the dining room table, crumbs everywhere... We have had to remove all tables in the living room, have tied the dining room chairs together, removed the breakfast-barstools, have gates at the stairs, locks on the cabinets, etc. Any toy which can be used as a weapon or a stepstool is quickly removed.
They are also freakin' adorable and sweet, I should mention. I love them dearly but this is why we have two children and no plans for a third.
this was genius.
tell me my typecasting is unjust, but from what i can tell girls and boys are different. my nephews constantly have dirty little hands. for no apparent reason. the little girls i know? not so much.
Toddling boys are destructicons. Wait til he can open doors. There is nowhere safe in our home anymore.
I know that. But why is your room so clean?
I am going to post pics of my house so you can see the results. When Mamapop posted pictures of that Babyshambles guy and were like 'Oh, that's so sad, mentally ill addict...look at his HOUSE!' I was like: Is that bad? My house is way worse.
The order that picture represents (a) fills me with envy--and not just because of the furniture and (b) confuses me. You have TWO KIDS! How do you do it?
And hey, I have that bench or something quite like it. And it's stacked up with kids' records.
This is why I could never stay home full time. I'd be cleaning ALL DAY.
Very cool gadget, by the way.
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We call our 10 month old the Destructor. (heavy on the long hard O in that last syllable)
And T2 is one of the bestest movies ever.
Brahahahahahaha! Awesome!
The only difference between this and my house is how much more classy yours looks before, and probably during, the attack.
I love Yellow Dump Truck= Not a Target. So true. So sadly true.
This might be the funniest party of my week. Seriously.
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