The Allers

Noah cracks us up!  He loves playing the “super new mario brothers” which is Super Mario brothers on the Wii.  That has been our leverage lately like if he stays in bed when we put him there at night then he gets to play a few worlds in the morning.  If he’s good at school then he gets to play a few worlds when he comes home.  He is in the preschool class at MDO now and he thinks he’s a big boy.  We also put a digital clock in his room and told him that in the mornings he can get up and go to the bathroom but that he has to get back in bed until the first number is a 7.  For two days it has worked now so I hope it continues!  Here’s what happened yesterday: Noah had to go to the bathroom so I followed him to help him with his pants.  He was carrying around a little red rubber ball so he set it on the bathroom counter.  After he used the bathroom he washed his hands and I handed him the towel to dry his hands.  I walked out of the bathroom and turned out the light.  He followed me out and said “Hey, it’s not nice to turn the light out when someone is in there because then they can’t see their balls.”  I kept a straight face then cracked up after he left the room (juvenile, I know!) but it struck me as funny.  Stephanie watched him and Nathan today while I worked and Noah was brushing his teeth tonight and told me he needed one of those toothbrushes with the button that spins around.  I asked him where he’d seen that and he said “At Stephanie’s house.  I found it in the bathroom and tried it out.  I liked it so I need to buy one.”  Needless to say I called Stephanie and told her to sterilize the mechanical toothbrush in her bathroom that belongs to her daughter!