Mr. DIY

He turned three two months ago, and has been on the biggest "I can do it 'cause I'm a three year old" tear. Actually tries to argue with me about crossing the street by himself.

Fed the goldfish all by himself. As in, pushed a chair to the counter, climbed up, got the fish food out of the cabinet, opened it up without spilling, took just the right amount, and fed the fish. Then, he actually put the fish food back!

I let him use scissors with very light (almost none...yeah, call CPS)supervision. He can work them very well and has made a great deal of confetti. He also uses a butter knife to cut up whatever food he's eating into really, really small pieces.

This morning his heart was broken when I didn't let him go all by himself down the two flights of stairs to the front door of our building and into the street to the waiting carpool ride to daycare. He wanted me to stay upstairs.

"Three year olds don't get splinters!" This is what he told me as he scaled a wooden fence when I had my back turned.

"Mama, you shouldn't just snatch things out of people's hands like that!" I think I took away a bottle of poison or a meat cleaver or something.

He likes to put the house/car/whatever keys into the locks. Any attempt at intervention is met with, "No, Mama! I can DOOO-OOO IT!" Have to be careful here so I don't wind up as the parent in the news article who's kid drives to the video store in the middle of the night.