I love the mind of the toddler. How it works, how they learn, the things they think of. While the toddler stage is exhausting and messy, you cannot help but smile, because they are so cute and so hilarious! I am grateful to watch as they become "real people" with voices and abilities and opinions and wills and desires and plans.I don't usually have a cookie jar. When I bake cookies they go into a covered cookie pan or tupperware container. It is a very rare day (as in once or twice a year) that I will buy the Oreos or Chips Ahoy at the store, so there is typically no need for a cookie jar.
But a few years ago I received a Halloween cookie jar as a gift. My husband and kids had fun over the weekend dragging out a few decorations, including the cookie jar.
So yesterday I filled the jar with the Halloween candy I've already bought. And today?
Well, today we did not talk at all about the cookie jar or candy, but after we returned from picking my 6 year old up from school, Toddler walked in the house straight for a breakfast room chair. He had a mission.
I noticed the determination and confidence in his step and stopped to watch what he was up to.
He drug the chair right over to the counter with the cookie jar, climbed up, and reached his little hand out and lifted the lid!
At that point I had to grab my camera to catch the cookie monster, or candy monster in this case, in the act.
And that my friends, is yet another reason why I admire the mind, the spirit, the determination of the toddler.
And also why I don't usually have a cookie jar!
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Oh man caught red handed! How cute! Have a blessed day!
ReplyDeleteHehe... mine raids the fridge when he gets back from school.
ReplyDeleteSmart little boy!! (I have two of them so I relate to this post completely!!)
ReplyDeleteHere is my tackle post!
Oh boy do I remember the chair dragging days! That is so cute!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like my daughter this is why we could never have a cookie jar it would always be empty.
ReplyDeletei love a man on a mission!! especially when it involves cookies! or candy!
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed not only by your little one but also by the fact that you were able to get to your camera quickly enough:)
ReplyDeleteLove it. I'd have to put it in the basement behind Christmas boxes now ... but still.
ReplyDeleteSo clever! Bet he could smell them!! Mmm.. :)
ReplyDeleteEvery parent knows that sound of a chair being drug to the counter from a mile away! Love it!
ReplyDeleteCute! I have a 2 year old and a 4 year old, we know the sound of moving chairs very well in this house too. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great cookie crime tackle:-)
ReplyDeleteYummy, you have a smart boy there!
ReplyDeleteHilarious! I can guarantee the same thing would happen here if we had one!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining in the challenge!
Jamie
Caught red handed AND willing to go through it anyway. Sooo cute!!!
ReplyDeleteThere is a LOT of chair dragging kinds of problem solving at work with my two year old!
ReplyDeleteSo cute that you got the camera to capture the moment. That will bring grins and giggles for years to come, I am sure!
I hid our halloween candy in the basement, and somehow my seven year old found it. I keep telling myself perseverance is a good quality.
ReplyDeleteThat is too funny :) My toddler has the same focused mind when it comes to sweets!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Luckily, my little guy still relies on me to get a stool for him to reach the counter, but I can only imagine that won't be for long!
ReplyDeleteBest,
Sarah
Adorable!!! LOL
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