the joys of raising a boy.....

Alright, first off I must say that I love Teyton more than any other little boy in the whole wide world and when it comes down to it I would never EVER change him in a million years. That being said....OH. MY. GOODNESS!!! That boy has so much energy and is so inquisitive about life it is a wonder he and I are still alive! November has flown by to say the least because of all the little adventures Teyton has had {and I have endured}. Feel free to laugh at all of this because I myself am laughing while I write this. It may not be so funny in the moment, but I have been getting in some good laughs now looking at the pics and recalling the stories.

Let's start from the top. It started with Teyton learning to climb amazing heights without any aid or stepping stools of any kind. How does he do this you might ask...I have no idea! He is so fast I have yet to witness these miracle stunt maneuvers he does. He is so stealth, seriously that boy is like a ninja! That combined with trying to potty train that child has not been good! We have been inside most of the time and despite my best efforts Teyton gets bored often with my games and wants to have fun of his own. I still take him outside to burn off some energy, but not nearly as long as we usually do because I am determined to have this boy potty trained!

The beginning of the month started out innocent enough. He wouldn't cry after nap time and instead destroy his room. I knew he was awake when I heard loud crashes coming from upstairs and come to his room looking like a tornado just hit it. Or going into Kayla's room and emptying out her toy chest to hide inside from Mommy. {He LOVES to play hide and seek} Or he would throw his food to the dogs getting a big kick out of how silly they look jumping up trying to catch bits of food here and there.....all those things I can handle. My house may look like a disaster 95% of the time but hey I'm a Mom right?

Next he upped his game a little. He now was trying to become an escape artist. Sneaking outside to try and play in his Little Coupe usually I run outside finding a little nude or underwear boy giggling and laughing while I chase him down. I'm pretty sure my neighbors think that we are crazy. He also started running into Kayla's room, my room, or the bathrooms and will lock the door and in the time it takes me to unlock it he has either destroyed the said room, or clogged the toilet/sink up with whatever he has on hand. This is all still things that I can handle, he is a little boy and a miniature Corey so I have had time to prepare myself for this {and I grew up with 5 brothers so that helped too}.

Here is where he takes everything to a whole new level. He now will start the day really nice, happy, smiling, no real major disasters or shenanigans to speak of. Then he will strike. First was the baby powdering of his room. Which was more comical than anything. He was so proud of himself. And little Miss McKayla was such a sweetheart, instead of tattling on her brother she just started dusting off all of his toys with her makeup brush.


Then he figured out how to open his medicine cabinet to get to the kids mouth wash. He took it and decided that it would be a great idea to spit it out on the carpet randomly in each room. I didn't get pictures of that because I was afraid that it would stain the carpet. I'm happy to say that it didn't.

Next he must have snuck out the vaseline and hid it in his room after getting into the medicine cabinet because while he was suppose to be napping he decided to give himself and his room a makeover with the vaseline. I was able to get out the stains on his bedding {YAY} his hair on the other hand didn't quite make it...




While I was cleaning up the mess he made,{and others I am listing} he made a number of other messes. Dumped his strawberry milk out on the couch, colored his body with markers, and painted his newly bald head and the couch with finger colors. I swear I couldn't keep up with the boy! He had so many baths in one day it was ridiculous! I was so done by the time Corey came home I just had to get out of the house! Corey was nice enough to let me go and got the kids dinner and even put them to bed, sweet right!? I came home that night feeling so refreshed and fell asleep ready to take on the next day.

While Corey had the best intentions taking care of the children he made one tiny oversight....he didn't put a Pull-Up on Teyton! There was pee everywhere! So much for a brand new day right! He must have liked the freedom he felt sleeping without a Pull-Up on because later that day when I got him up from his nap his Pull-Up was off, and he was using his....um.....#2 as finger paint on the door. {don't worry I did NOT take any pics of that, I was too busy trying not to throw up while cleaning it off} I threw him in the tub and he was having a great time playing in the bubbles.



Teyton "thinking" about what he just did...I think he just may be a little to young to understand what I meant, he looks far too happy in his thoughts

He may have made a small lake in the bathroom but I will take that any day over the other mess he had just made. I gave up on the inside routine for the day and we played outside and I ran him ragged! Then the next morning I tried to wear him out with inside games so he could still use the potty when needed. We did somersaults, danced, made towers out of plastic cups and then destroyed them, wrestled, I had him run around our kitchen island for awhile, we played hide and seek...needless to say I got ZERO house work done all day.






BUT it was so worth it! I wore him out good! He took such a good nap {and so did I} he actually resisted my attempts of waking him up from his nap. Believe me I didn't want to, but I had a Dr appt that I had to go to {just a check up}.

We have ended this month with Extreme Toddler sports it would seem. Teyton somehow got to the popcorn and treats that I thought were far beyond his reach {silly Mommy, you should never think something is impossible for Teyton to do}.


And then tonight while we were reading bedtime stories, Teyton snuck out of the room we all heard one big thump on the ground and then Teyton's little feet scampering out of his room into Kayla's just beaming with what he had just accomplished.



I have no idea how he got this Piggy Bank off of his dresser. I inspected his room and none of the drawers were pulled out to use for assistance, not toys or books stacked up. Everything was in it's place except the Piggy Bank Teyton held in his hands. I'm thinking that he did some sort of a tuck and roll with how loud of a thump we heard. Oh the adventures of having a little boy....