On again, off again

In case you drive past our home and see the lights blinking, we aren’t trying to send morse code, it’s just Sweet Pea learning how to use the light-switches since he can finally reach them, sometimes by means of a chair which he has ever so carefully toddler-handled over to the switch to carry out this deep yearning desire to flick the lights.

At one point tonight, while Cutie Pie was trying to play “night train” (yes, he absolutely loves Thomas the Tank Engine still and has to act out on a daily basis the songs he hears) Sweet Pea kept maneuvering a chair over to the light-switch to turn the light back on. I am pretty confident that he was only doing this simply because he could, but it was probably a plus that it annoyed his older brother. When Cutie Pie’s frustration was mounting to the point of interrupting the music lesson that Hubby was teaching in the other room, I quietly told him he used to do the same thing when he was Sweet Pea’s age. Amazingly, this explanation was enough to change Cutie Pie’s outlook on the situation and he, almost with abandoned glee, encouraged Sweet Pea to turn them off and on to his heart’s content!

So although this is an incredibly irritating repetitive occurrence in our home right now, we know we’ve lived through it before without our eyes giving out on us, so we will endure, with the full realization that Sweet Pea definitely understands the words “ON” and “OFF”.

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