A good morning.
He ate both waffles.
He examined his sticky fingers and said, "I need to wash up."
He wanted to brush his teeth and wash without me, as a surprise.
"When I come out, you say, 'How did your teeth get so white?' and 'How did your hands get so clean'?"
He forgot that he needs my help squeezing the toothpaste. I came in, for a second. I had to pretend I didn't do that.
He jumped out of the bathroom and did jazz hands at me.
He stood on my bed, carefully brushing his hair, while I got dressed, and explained to me how he likes his hair done.
"You have to have your hair off your forehead, so you can look beautiful," he explained.
He brushed my hair. "You have a big forehead so it's easy for you to look beautiful."
Then he said he was going to show his Dad how beautiful he looked, and he ran downstairs.
Oh dear. Check his drawers for the snake/frog. ;)
Posted by: Xumca | March 31, 2008 at 06:23 PM
This just made me coo. Thank you!!
Posted by: C* | March 31, 2008 at 06:28 PM
I love him.
Posted by: Rhi | March 31, 2008 at 07:29 PM
OMG--how unbelievably sweet and life affirming! Good you recorded it, as I'm sure tomorrow will be, shall we say, different! :)
Posted by: Sarah | March 31, 2008 at 07:37 PM
I see he has already learned my favorite maxim in life: Jazz hands are always a good idea.
Posted by: The Window Seat | March 31, 2008 at 07:42 PM
I have a big forehead. When I pull my hair back, I look like Thomas Jefferson.
Posted by: suburbancorrespondent | March 31, 2008 at 07:52 PM
I have no comment to make. I'm too busy laughing at suburbancorrespondent's comment.
This was sweet.
Posted by: Jenn @ Juggling Life | March 31, 2008 at 07:59 PM
I do too, SC. Apparently my son has a thing for the Jeffersonian look.
Posted by: alice | March 31, 2008 at 08:08 PM
That's incredibly endearing.
Posted by: sizzle | March 31, 2008 at 08:19 PM
So sweet!
How do I get mine to brush without wrangling?
Posted by: cartoongoddess | March 31, 2008 at 08:52 PM
So cute!
Posted by: tadpoledrain | March 31, 2008 at 09:24 PM
So sweet! My littest monster laid a good one on me the other day -- I was grousing about my mid-length haircut (too short to pull back) and I mused aloud, "Maybe I should just get it cut short again?" Little monster said very seriously "No mommy, you look more beautiful with it like this." Not just "beautiful", but "MORE beautiful", is what did me in.
Posted by: RuthWells | March 31, 2008 at 09:38 PM
AWWW......!!!!!
Posted by: Deetz & Co. | March 31, 2008 at 09:45 PM
AWWW......!!!!!
Posted by: Deetz & Co. | March 31, 2008 at 09:46 PM
AWWW......!!!!!
Posted by: Deetz & Co. | March 31, 2008 at 09:46 PM
my forehead is so big my husband calls it my "fivehead"
Posted by: lora | March 31, 2008 at 09:47 PM
great post.
Cookie
Posted by: Cookie Sunshine | March 31, 2008 at 09:51 PM
That's what I love about Five. So mostly-capable, when they're willing, and so earnestly sweet, when they feel like it and can figure out how to boss you around using polite words.
And then just when they have you all sappy and Awwwww...... BAM! They bring on the attitude, just to keep you from getting too comfy.
Jazz Hands rock.
Posted by: rachel | March 31, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Wait till he takes half an hour in there, blowdrying and gelling his hair because he has to have a certain image for the ladies....
It'll arrive before you know it.
Posted by: Frogdancer | April 01, 2008 at 02:59 AM
Fivehead victim here too - my daughter6 says its because I have extra brains that make me smart enough to be a mommy. That might be as awesome as being beautiful, I think.
Posted by: Anne | April 01, 2008 at 08:40 AM
Ah, the delights of April Fool's
Posted by: liz | April 01, 2008 at 09:08 AM
What a sweetie. It's great you're writing down what he does - he won't be small for long. My son is a hoot. He told me I had something in my hair this morning and I grabbed my head and he startde laughing - "It's the fool day!"
Posted by: Dee | April 01, 2008 at 09:30 AM
I sincerely hope this is an April Fool's post. I've been a mother for nineteen years and I don't ever remember anyone volunteering to "wash up."
Posted by: TEOM? | April 01, 2008 at 09:33 AM
What a lovely way to start a day. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Rivetergirl | April 01, 2008 at 10:10 AM
wow, while i read this, my son tortured me. at the moment, he's destroying the bathroom by spraying water and "too minty" toothpaste everywhere.
wanna trade?
Posted by: punchanella | April 01, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Awww...it's nice to have those sweet times to hold onto, especially during the times when we want to kill 'em.
Posted by: LadyBug | April 01, 2008 at 12:42 PM
too too sweet...i love days like that...or times of the day like that...or portions of a ten minute period like that...i soak them up & remember them later when i am being yelled at for giving him french fries that he then dropped on the floor...why would i do such a thing?
Posted by: emily ruth | April 01, 2008 at 06:21 PM
How do kids always make you feel like the most beautiful, wonderful, best loved person in the world?
Posted by: Jooshy | April 01, 2008 at 06:56 PM
Aw, that's so sweet! They have to have 'sweet days' so we don't sell them to sweat shops.
My daughter (who is only 2), likes to ask me if I have brushed my hair and when I say yes, she pets it and says it looks 'so pretty'. And that's how she earns her keep.
Posted by: Jen O. | April 02, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Jazz hands!!! Awesome.
Posted by: Tammy | April 02, 2008 at 11:30 AM
And then did you eat him up? 'Cause you totally should. Except then there would be no more Henry stories and that would be sad.
Posted by: Beth | April 02, 2008 at 09:00 PM
Any morning that begins with two waffels and ends with looking beatutiful, is a good morning. :)
Posted by: Leaf, probably... | April 02, 2008 at 10:38 PM
see, i only want a kid if i can have a guarantee, preferably in writing, that s/he will do frigging adorable crap like this.
Posted by: smackdown | April 02, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Life is good.
Posted by: Dory | April 03, 2008 at 12:03 AM
lol...I have a big forehead, too. It's actually and eight head.
Big brains are beautiful. ;-)
Posted by: Jozet at Halushki | April 03, 2008 at 01:10 AM
A big forehead = beautiful.
That is beautiful all by itself.
What a character.
Posted by: Christi | April 03, 2008 at 04:11 AM
I love Henry. He is just awesome.
What a great post.
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Posted by: harika | April 03, 2008 at 09:16 AM
Sweet! That is a good morning.
However, I am a little dismayed to realize that when my 3.5 year old is 5 years old he will still be directing everything my husband and I say. Our morning: "Daddy, how about if you say, That's a nice lion (my son is pretending to be a lion). Can I have that lion, Mama?" "And Mama, you say, no, that's my lion, Grandpa gave it to me." "And Daddy, you say, Can we share him?" And Mama, you say, no, I don't want to share!" Etc. Etc. All day long. Helps him work out stuff in that little head of his, I'm sure, but it is sooo tiring. But cute. Yet tiring.
Posted by: mandy | April 03, 2008 at 12:36 PM
The Wonderland piece was so great! Hooray! *admires you so much*
Posted by: mostcurious | April 03, 2008 at 09:55 PM
He just makes my heart want to bust out in giggles.
Posted by: schmutzie | April 05, 2008 at 03:46 PM
He makes my ovaries ache.
Posted by: Pants | April 05, 2008 at 11:59 PM
We should all be groomed so lovingly.
Posted by: Lotta | April 18, 2008 at 12:17 AM