Toilet Paper

Jayden is a huge helper. He is always trying to help with one thing or another which almost always means extra work for me. He always helps fill up our basket with toilet paper in the spare bathroom. This morning, we were out in my bathroom and I showed Jayden the empty roll and asked him to bring mommy another one. He looked at me for a minute so I repeated my request and he took the empty roll and left. It took him several minutes to come back, but when he did, he was empty handed. Ok, I guess he didn’t get it.

A few minutes later, I went to the spare bathroom to get the roll of paper myself and I found evidence that he had understood what I had asked him to do, but decided to go about it a different way. Here’s what I found.
I guess he got tired of pulling on the roll and realized that it wasn’t coming with him to my bathroom and gave up. Good boy. I would have been really upset if he had unwound the entire roll! Ha-ha!

Night Time Fright!

It was long past bedtime, but I just can’t go to sleep knowing that Jayden is awake so I was in the office working on my latest hobby, couponing. Jayden heard me clicking away at the computer and flies out of his bed.

Jayden: Mommmmmy!

Mommy: Go to bed.

He doesn’t know that I’ve gotten up to peek in on him and I’m impressed. He’s actually going to bed as asked the first time. On the way to bed, he find his sandals and picks those up and takes them to bed with him. Great. Yet another thing I’ll have to remove later.
About 10 minutes later, I hear Jayden crying. I go running next door.

Mommy: What’s wrong?

Jayden: Ca-ca.

Mommy: Where’s the ca-ca.

Jayden gets up and comes over to the door and gives me a plastic thingy he’s holding so I take it and throw it away. He’s still upset though.

Jayden: Ca-ca.

Mommy: Jayden come here. (He comes over and I double check his diaper.) You are not ca-ca. Go to bed.

But he won’t go. He’s standing there with a weird look on his face. I climb over the baby gate and ask him where the ca-ca is. He’s been using ca-ca to describe anything undesirable. He looks to the dresser. I look and see nothing. He must have seen something. I get down on the floor and look under the dresser, but I see nothing except random toys.

Jayden: There is.

Mommy: Where?

I look and sure enough, there’s a large insect on the dresser. I quickly kill and discard said insect and then try to get him to get in bed. This turns out to be mission impossible. Almost every toy he owns is in his bed. And as if that were not enough, he’s got two pairs of shoes and socks in bed too. Lordy! Last night, it was the same. I went to tuck him and the light was on. His latest obsession is sleeping with the light & ceiling fan & the radio on. His bed was covered with toys and plushes and shoes and socks. There was barely any room for him to sleep. It took me a long time to take out all that stuff, including his entire collection of legos and musical instruments. What a little boy!

Today’s episode immediately took me back to the days were Jayden would cry and all I could tell was that he wasn’t hungry or in pain. Other than that, I would have to guess at what was wrong. It was so wonderful to be able to have him tell me in his own way that there was something in the room that had frightened him. I’m so happy his list of words is growing.