The age of three can be quite challenging for us parents. The three year old child doesn't want to listen and wants his own way all the time. However, the three year old can also be really funny and innocent. Those are the times that I want to remember. We had two instances of that today with Alexander and his friend. The first moment happened this morning. We have been trying to train Alexander to lift the seat on the toilet as well as the lid before he goes to the bathroom. This morning, I walked into the bathroom and found him sitting on the toilet with the lid and seat lifted. I calmly told him that this wasn't a good idea and that he needs to lift the lid when he goes pee pee, but not for poop. He then asked me why and I said that he could fall in the toilet. He asked what would happen then and proceeded to say, "Are there bugs in there?" I told him no that there weren't bugs in the toilet, so he asked why again. This time he followed his why with, "Is it because I don't know how to swim?" That's when I cracked up and I heard Nathan laughing in the other room. I live for those moments.
The other pure three year old moment happened this afternoon at our friends house. Alexander and his friend were playing and they started playing on the steps. Nathan calmly told them both to stop playing on the steps. It took a while to convince then with us telling them that they could get hurt and that we didn't want that to happen. Then Alexander's friend said to us, "But we don't want to stop. We're having too much fun!" We lost it again. He made a lot of sense and it was really funny.
So for all of us with three year old drama all the time, I hope you have some of these moments where you can stop and think about how funny and sweet your three year old is, because we really need to do it here.
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