Guinness' Debut at Whistler

Haha, I just realized the last update on Guinness that I put on Facebook was also about him being a 'whistler', but this post is about the amazing ski and outdoor destination of Whistler, BC. We drove for two and a half hours to get to Whistler, hoping to see snow. Sadly, it is in tonight's forecast, but ok, whatever, we'll go hang out in the Olympic park for a bit. Parking lot is full and busy, but Chris snags a spot. He pulls in, puts the van in park, and BLEEECH; Guinness throws up all over himself.

Great.

Amazingly, his new winter coat was very easy to wipe off. Got the carseat and coat clean enough to get him out, stripped off his shirt, went to the McDonald's bathroom, gave him my tshirt, new pants, coat back on. Daddy takes kids to park, Mommy deals with van. I used a million wipes, and fortunately had hand sanitizer. I squirted a bunch of that all over the straps and cover and stuff, got most of the odor out. Let the fun begin!

Kids played at this awesome park for a long time. Had hot chocolate and coffee, supper at a pizza by the slice shop. Good road trip, thankfully no more throwing up!! He was so sweet about it, too; after he was done he said, "I'm supposed to throw up in the potty, right? That would be better." Haha!!!

My little twit...

We finished this novel today. I highly reccomend it; funny, fast paced, and enough illustrations to keep the young'uns engaged. Roald Dahl is definitely in my top author list. Maybe we'll do The Witches next.

Guinness is being a bit of a twit... Whiny, tired, fits, bad behaviors that he repeats and repeats and repeats. Don't pick that up. Don't pick that up. Don't pick that up. Come here. Come here. Come here. So different from Gemma in that she was correctable. With her you could do a time out and it would work. Or stickers. Or a prize. She understood that good behavior gets rewarded and was desirable. Guinness can not wrap his head around it. He's also not sleeping great. Chris and I are exhausted from putting back to bed 5 or 6 times a night, so he must be tired too. Today he even fell asleep in the chariot. Something else to consider is that he is eating a tonne; breakfast at 8, snack at 9, and 10, lunch at 11:30, snack at 1, and 4, supper at 5:30, and then a huge snack again at 7:30. Growing boy :). Need to give him more cuddles, I think.

The Situation

Guinness has been using so many new words lately: example, I'd prefer..., actually, exasperated. Then today we were a little late getting lunch because I was working on my bike, and when I got in he was already standing on the stool in the kitchen, hands on the cupboard doors. "Mom, are you going to take care of the food situation here?" So I laugh and retort, "Why don't YOU take care of the food situation!" He says, "I can't take care of any situation! I'm just Guinness!"

In bad news, after school today he walked up to a little girl who was enjoying an after school cookie, and snatched it right of her hand and ate it!!!! So that ended play time early today.

Romp and Stomp

On Wednesdays there is a drop in toddler romp and stomp time at the local community centre. It's a big open gym, with all sorts of toys set out: balls, little hockey nets and basketball nets, mats, bikes and plasma cars, balance beam, and a bouncy castle. It was super fun, and Guinness had a blast. And it was only 2$!!!!! He worked pretty hard on his dribbling skills, and after many many attempts made it up to 23 consecutive bounces! He was so proud he stopped to give me a hug :). Awwww! It is so fun to be with him, my "best buddy forever"!

Dishwashing

Gemma always liked doing dishes with me, making different recipes with the soap bubbles, pouring and scooping and stuff. We would play Ratitouille and she'd be Colette and I'd be Linguini. Anyway, Gemma is asleep already because she's not feeling good, so I invited Guinness to join me.

First he wanted to take off his long sleeve shirt because it will get wet. Ok, fair enough. Then he wanted his pants off. And the goch came off with the pants, so oh well. And then he just took off his Tshirt as well. And the naked dishwasher steps up to the sink.

He was really confused that he'd have to stand on the stool. I think he thought he could get right into the sink. Maybe that's why he wanted all his clothes off! Anyway, once he understood what was going on we had fun.

Confidence

Confident is one way to describe Guinness. Another way is having an unhealthy lack of fear. I shook my head and laughed the last time we were at the beach in Taiwan, and he was literally under a wave, his eyeballs looking at me through the water, smiling!! Should you be smiling if you are under the water? Most recently he can be found at the top of chain link fences, or trying to stand in the road so he can punch the cars. (because he could stop the car with his fist you know;)

I was trying to clean up from lunch and he was trying to get my attention. A popular strategy is to lie down dead on the floor, thus requiring true love's kiss for revival. So I tried a kiss, but it didn't work!!!! He told me he needed true love's water. So I get his cup of water from lunch and offer him my hand so he can sit up and become 'alive'. He told me he could drink it lying down.

That's right, y'all. My son can drink a cup of water lying flat on his back on the floor. I ask him if he is sure, and he assures me, "Yes, mom, I know I can do it!!". So I am laughing my head off at this point because I know what is about to happen, and he is slowly, slowly trying to get the rim of the cup to his lips but starting to realize why this was not going to work. He did give up, and sat up to drink True Love's Water, and I collapsed on the floor because I was laughing so hard. Lots to learn when you are only 3!

All by myself!

Guinness came up to me this morning; "I did my pants all by myself!" I asked him what he did, because I had already dressed him this morning, and he said, "I don't want to wear goch". So he took them off and just put his pants back on. All by himself.

It's so cute; how do you correct such earnest effort?