A very, very busy little guy

Baby boy is mommy's little champ. 

Over the passed few weeks the young growing man has stepped up his game. 3wks prior to the 2yrs birthday he began helping with preparing dinner. This is a pleasant change as normally I'd occupy him with a cartoon instead. I do prefer the new development as we now chat and enjoy our food making process. It's also quite refreshing to not have him hang by my legs saying "hungry mommy". Instead he announces with gusto that he's going to "help mommy". Then he runs off to his room to fetch his chair which he uses as a step stool. I then insist on him washing his hands and the fun (read as mess) begins.

He especially loves baking. And I'm learning to relax and not have a mini freak out whenever he eats our (usually scarce) baking ingredients. So far he has eaten butter while letting me know that it's "yummy mommy". Then he goes for the flour and of course he always eats up the bananas when making banana bread. And the grand finale, indulging in the batter. I know people eat batter. I am not one of those people. But he is a Schamel so this is in his nature. Aside from eating the batter, baby boy takes life one step further by giving himself a pretty decent facial. If it's just flour he'll simply pat himself on the cheeks. And I just shake my head and try to look at the beauty in our chaos.

I think for Christmas we should make buy him an apron and a chef's hat. 

Today we made banana muffins, ummmmm. We often bake before his nap, so that everything is done and ready for dear old me to relax with some rooiboss and a freshly baked goodie.

And he helps with the cleaning up, which means the cleaning takes me double the normal time.

A very, very busy little guy.