Jokes and Counting

The other night Tristan played his first practical joke on us! A couple of weeks ago we made caterpillars at the daycare I work at, because we were studying the letter C. We made them out of egg cartons and painted and decorated them. Tristan had painted his brown. He also ripped it in half shortly after it was finished. Anyway, the other night he called me into the bathroom to show me that Wade had gone poopoo in the potty chair. I ran in excitedly, and Tristan lifted up the lid to show me the "poopoo". He had put half of his caterpillar in the pot, and it really did look kind of like poopoo! He laughed about it, and later even Daddy was half-way fooled for a minute.
Jason rescued our volleyball out of the boat when he winterized it, and it has become Wade's new favorite ball. He uses it as a soccer ball and spends several hours a day kicking it around the house. The other night Tristan was putting together a number/counting puzzle and was counting the objects before he put them in the puzzle. Soon I heard Wade, all on his own count all the way up to 10, while kicking his ball through the house! He has counted to 10 with me before, repeating the numbers after I say them, but this was the first time he strung all 10 of them together on his own without any prompting!