Dut-Duts

Lawson is a pretty routine kind of kid. He comes by it honestly because Jason and I are the same way. For the most part, if we do something two or three times, he knows that the way we do it. It's this way with our bath time and bed time routines as well as when we eat dinner (if he's not in his chair eating within like 30-45 minutes of me getting home from work, he walks in the kitchen and starts repeating, "Eat. Eat, Eat."This can be a REALLY good thing and sometimes a not so good thing.

For example, a week or two ago as I was leaving for work Jason sat down on the love seat with Lawson and his sippy cup (they wave bye-bye to me out the window everyday), a individual chocolate milk, and a bag of mini chocolate donuts. Like most kids, when Lawson sees some one eating something, he wants a bite. Jason gave him a small bite of each chocolate donut as he ate them. The same thing happened the next morning. SO, by like the third or fourth morning when Jason walked out of the bedroom, Lawson walked to the kitchen, pointed at the donuts and said, "Dut-duts. Dut-duts. Mmmmmm." Keep in mind this dut-dut business is all happening before Lawson's actual breakfast. We try to make sure he has relatively balanced meals, but giving him dut-duts every morning is not really in line with that goal. I think he's finally realized that we don't have to sit on the couch and have dut-duts with Daddy EVERY morning, but the second he sees the dut-duts (which are no longer out on the counter but put up in the cabinet so he doesn't see them right away) he wants them.

Last week after he had eaten some more healthy breakfast food, Jason let him have a whole dut-dut. You think he likes it? Haha!

I think the second one might be one of my favorite all-time pictures of him. Such a little stinker!!