Toddler Sillines

Peter has been so entertaining lately.  We've had warmer weather and most of the snow has melted, so it's afforded us more chances to go outside without Peter crying over the cold.  I took advantage of it to play with him several times on the trampoline and in the tree fort.

However, we can't always play outside and when we play inside, Peter has made us laugh many times lately.  One super funny incident was when we were playing with our monster puppet.  It's a puppet with velcro pieces so you can customize the monster a dozen different ways with different hair, eyes, mouth, nose, horns, arms, etc.  Peter has a bit of a love/hate relationship with the puppet.  He's always the one to pull it out of the drawer and he loves certain pieces but there are a couple that freak him out.  This day one of the freaky pieces had fallen out of the bag right next to a car he wanted.  It was a little piece of orange fuzz that can be eyebrows or ears, etc.  (It wasn't the green hand in the picture, he's not scared of that at all. It's just the orange fuzz!!)

 He wanted so desperately to play with the car but going near that rogue piece of monster was too frightening.  I wish I had it on video.  He kept stepping forward trying to muster up the courage and then shrinking back in fear like there was a poisonous snake curled up by the car.  He'd whine and pull my arm trying to get me to grab the car for him, but I just kept encouraging him to get it.  I even blocked him in with my legs so he couldn't get away from the piece without going over it.  He scrambled and clawed his way over my legs to get away. I finally gave up and gave him the car and he was so happy.  Then guess what he went over and got out of a different toy box?  A giant plastic spider!  He placed it with other toy animals and played happily.  WHAT? 

Piece of orange fuzz is scary beyond all measure but the giant, creepy, hairy spider is a toy?  I laughed so hard at that.  It reminded me of when Christian was so freaked out by the little rabbits at the petting zoo when he was the same age.  There's no logic at 18 months.

Another funny moment this week was when Peter took Benjamin's lunch container and tried to fit into it.  He pushed it up against the step ladder, so he could hold on and then got both feet inside the box and sat down.  He actually managed to sit on it in such a way that he didn't fall over and actually kind of fit in this little box! 

 When we laughed and smiled at that sight, he was so proud of himself!  He continued to stand in the box for a long time afterwards, guaging our reaction if we still thought he was so cool for doing it.  He loves making people laugh and loves being the center of attention.  He's adorable.