Super Poor or Cleaning the Refrigerator?

Background Information -

David has learned how to open the refrigerator. It's actually one of his favorite things to do. He loves it when we ask him to open the refrigerator for us and he loves to make it into a game to see who is watching when he opens the refrigerator when he knows he's not supposed to.

The Incident -

Saturday night David woke up about 1am. He got out of his bed and crawled up to footboard into our bed. Then he got down, went back to his room and grabbed his white bear and climbed back into our bed. He slept with us the rest of the night. At least that is how I remember things going.

What Actually Happened -

All of the above is true, however at some point David went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. I don't know what he was looking for or if he just needed light I don't know. As is David's custom he didn't close the door because we weren't there reminding him to close the door.

The Result -

When I woke up in the morning David did too. We walked into the kitchen to get the usual cup of milk (for David). What do I find....the refrigerator door opened and everything is hot. I went back into the bedroom and told Dustin to get up. I spent Sunday morning emptying the refrigerator of all its contents and throwing 99% of it away. I filled the trash can 1 1/2 times. The milk had actually started to curdle. We were able to save a few things like the raisins, dried currants, an apple, some lettuce, the string cheese, butter, homemade shake and bake mix and the coconut. I made up some powdered milk so that I could use if for the "cooking" I had to do.

We were supposed to have our neighbors over for dinner but most of the ingredients we needed were in the refrigerator because we had just bought them Saturday evening. We ended eating dinner over at their house instead. The refrigerator is now held closed with a bungie cord so that if David opens the door he can only open it 2-3 inches before it swings shut.

Ah, the joys of parenthood.

Fire Truck!

Yesterday a fire truck, fire fighters, and Freddy the fire dog came for a visit. We live right by the ASC preschool and they were learning about fire safety. We got to see ladder lifted and extended and then one of the firefighters climbed up. He was so high! We got to join the preschool class and walk around the fire truck and look inside. David even high-fived Freddy the fire dog.

Mr. Etiquette, Mr. Photographer

This morning at breakfast as we sat at the table David was quite the little entertainer. Dustin had put some nutella on David's apple and David immediately liked it off. Of course some of it ended up all over his face. I handed David his napkin so that he could wipe his face and hands and he tried. I then used my napkin to wipe off his face at least and returned the napkin to my lap. David saw me do this and proceeded to put his napkin in his lap as much as his booster seat and tray would let him. I ran to find the camera so that we could get a picture of our little etiquette master.
After taking David's picture he of course wanted to see the picture. I put the camera on review and showed him the picture I had just taken. David then took the camera from and figured out how to take pictures himself and how to review them. Here is some of David's own photography.

Gymnastics!

Today we enrolled David in a toddler gymnastics class. Today he caught up for missing the first class on Monday. David's class will be Monday afternoon for the next six weeks.

The class is so cute. They crawled on the balance beam, walked on the balance beam, jumped off the pommel horse, swung from the bars and played on the floor. Of course David's favorite part was the balance balls. The kids were airplanes on the balls, and they got to bounce the balls and roll the balls around the room. David loved it! The teacher also had the kids do somersaults, roll on the floor like a caterpiller and run and jump. They also jumped on a little mini trampoline.

I think it will be a really good little class. The kids love running around the room playing and pretending.I thought this would be a great way to make sure David gets a chance to run around and play with other kids different from church or MOPS. It also gives us something to do on Monday's for David. Since we have started doing preschool we have one activity every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; now we can add Monday to the mix. I'm excited for this little class of David's.