Little Boys

Jordan successfully used a plate a few days ago. He actually ate off of it instead of immediately picking it up and dumping it upside down then throwing it off the tray. And he's done pretty good since then. He kind of tries to use his fork too. He at least puts it on his food. He hasn't had any success getting food on it. But he's trying.

Today I was cleaning the bathrooms and I started as the boys were still finishing up their breakfast. I was trying to get as much done as I could before I had to let Jordan down from his high chair. I always hate cleaning the bathrooms when he's around because he always wants to come in and I worry about him breathing in all the different fumes and touching the cleaning stuff and if I shut the door he cries. So today I was trying to work fast and get all the toilets and the tub cleaned up. I didn't think I'd get very far because I figured he would want to get down. But I kept listening for him to start whining while I cleaned and he was happy and Jack was happy. I thought they were just both eating cheerios from Jordan's tray and having fun being together. But then I came downstairs. And this is what i saw:
See those little dots all over the carpet? They're cheerios. Jackson told me he spilled. My guess is that he tried to poor some more cheerios for him and Jordan and since the box was pretty much completely full they went everywhere. It took him awhile to pick them all up. As he picked them up he just ate them all. He and Jordan must have ate a ton of them because neither of them ate much for lunch.

Then after lunch I was trying to clean up the kitchen and was putting some bread sticks I froze into freezer bags. Jackson was coloring at the table. Jordan was happy too. So I was happy to be able to get some things done while my kids were happy. Then Jack just started laughing and I turned around and saw Jordan was playing with him and had a marker with the cap off. I thought Jack was laughing because Jordan had been able to get the marker off. But once I went over to take the marker away from Jordan this is what I saw:

Jackson told me that he colored on Jordan's face. I don't know why he did it. He's never done that kind of thing before. I think he's only ever colored on his hands. Hopefully he'll never do it again.