Buttons. Jake likes to push them.

My buttons to be exact. The kid has been showing us his true colors, the past 13 months have only been lulling us into a false sense of security.

3 stories about Jake from yesterday.

#1
The kids and I were standing in the kitchen, Jake was standing at his cabinet which is a few feet from the trash can. The kids have a habit of trying to pull stuff out of it so I try to redirect and tell them yucky. Anyways, I watch Jake side step to it and start picking at the trash bag, I say something and he side steps back to his cabinet. This goes on a few more times before I yelled, James, in that exasperated voice that moms get. I kid you not, the kid side stepped back to his cabinet, grabbed hold of the handles, threw his head back to look at me then laughed. I had to look away to keep from laughing.

#2
Playing in the living room, Jake's over between the TV and bookcase pulling his toys off the shelf. I'm talking with Addy and I hear this sound, I look up and Jake is beating on the TV. Our nice LCD tv. I tell him to stop and he reaches out with a finger, I say his name and the hand goes back in, continues a few times until he turns around to look at me. I see the hand go up and back to the TV and I say James, and the hand immediately takes a detour to his head. And this is why the TV will be mounted in the new house.

#3
Jake bit Andy twice today, after a round of no, that hurts, he put him on the ground and ignored him, hoping to curb this behavior. He proceeds to throw a tantrum by falling forward and shoving his face into the floor while screaming, no tears by the way. He then rolls over and I fully expected the feet to start kicking at the floor, all the while Andy and I tried to keep from laughing.

In Addy news, she likes to push the buttons on the remote and changed the channel to 666. I took this as a sign that she truly is the spawn of satan and like Jake, is lulling us into a false sense of security.

I love my kids, but somedays I'm tempted to ship them to Grandma's house. She won't even notice them there with that zoo.