Don't Get That on My Sweatpants!!

Kastyn always has to have a napkin. He can't stand to have messy fingers. He will ask for you to wash his hands half way through eating a handful of cheesy chips. And I have to take full responsibility for this un-boyish behavior!! When he first started feeding himself, I would literally sit next to him with a wet wipe so that I could wipe his hand after every bite. I couldn't bear the thought of him actually TOUCHING ME with his messy fingers...OK lets be honest, I still can't bear the thought of it!! Heaven forbid he gets cheesy finger prints on my sweatpants, and my over sized t-shirt that I have 25 others just like it sitting in my closet(I pretty much live in my t-shirts from all of the 5 and 10K's that I have ran. Cause who wants to sit around the house in a blouse and jeans?)

I don't know where this problem came from! I should just be able to tell myself, "He's just being a boy. Let him be messy!" YEAH RIGHT!! My friend can let her kids eat anything, get anything on their fingers, hands, face and clothes, and she doesn't even bat an eyelash!! She just changes their outfit, or wipes their hands off. OF COURSE!! Just wash their hands when they are done!! YEAH, NO!! The second I feel like those fingers are coming towards me, there might as well be 20 spiders crawling all over me!! That's really how I feel!! My skin starts crawling and I start hyperventilating.

Last Christmas my Mom asked me what Kastyn wanted for Christmas. We had just went to look at the lights at temple square and went for a stroll through City Creek afterwards. There is a HUGE toy store there! And as we were walking through Kastyn found a little Play Dough set with a truck and some fun things to go with it. We told him that maybe Santa could bring him some for Christmas. So when my mom asked me what he would want, I told her play dough! I used to play with play dough all of the time and I loved it!

She passed the message along to my aunt, whose son had "drawn out" Kastyn's name for the gift exchange, and she got him a cute little set with a fire truck! He LOVES firetrucks!! It took a couple days before we got it out, and when we finally did, I was so excited for him to play with his play dough!! IT GOT ALL OVER MY FLOOR!! All over my rug, all over my table.all over the chair!! What was I thinking?!?! This was NOT fun!! He had a huge smile on his face, and all I wanted to do was put it all away and never get it out again!! So now...because I am such an awesome mom, I usually come up with a dumb reason why he cant get it out. Or just tell him that he can play with it later, in the hopes that he will forget about it. Which almost always works!! WINNER!!

Today, I have to sweep my floors because there is dried up play dough from this afternoon all over it. But you should have seen my little guys face. It was like a "you never let me do anything fun" look, and I couldn't even handle it today. So we got it out. He played with it, I played with him, and all I have to do is sweep up a few little pieces off of my kitchen floor. Just like all I would have to do is wipe the cheesy, sticky fingerprints off of my $10 sweatpants that probably have a bleach stain on them somewhere!


I am lucky enough that Kastyn wont be starting Kindergarten until he is 6, because his birthday is one day after the deadline. Could I probably work the system and get him in? Yes. I don't think 1 day would make much of a difference. But I don't want him to be turning 5 when everyone else is turning 6, and so on and so forth for the rest of his educational career. So, I still have him home with me, (with the exception of the 2 hours a day, 2 days a week preschool he is staring in the fall) for 2 more years. Some days he drives me nuts and I wish it was sooner. Some days he doesn't listen and he gets his cheesy fingerprints everywhere!! But one day. I am going to miss those fingerprints. And I will probably make them myself just to make myself feel better about not having a messy boy that follows me around the house everywhere I go. But, its still going to make my skin crawl when I see those messy fingers coming towards me!! What can I say, no matter how many "deep thoughts" I have about the future, some things will never change.