Lots of firsts

So much fun in so little time! Cade experienced two firsts yesterday...chewing gum and making 'big bubbles' all by himself. The video below is of his bubble experience plus some short bonus footage of him at the water park. Notice it still seems he's going to be a lefty.

Re: the gum, this was daddy's idea. I'm of the philosophy that you don't give a two-year-old gum, however I'm so used to hearing, to paraphrase, 'butt-out, this is daddy time' that I didn't signal an alarm. Cade had the pleasure of three different chewing occasions. The first two went without a hitch, with us constantly reminding him to chew and not swallow. The third time must've been pushing our luck, because the irresistible urge to swallow the gum like every other food item he puts in his mouth surpassed our caution of 'it'll give you a tummy ache'. GULP!

Ironically, the next morning (today), Cade awoke complaining of a tummy ache. After much mental gymnastics on my part about whether a two-year-old could really develop psychosomatic symptoms, he actually vomited, resting his case that he did, in fact, have a tummy ache. Prior to this, whilest believing we scared the tar out of him by telling him he was destined for a tummy ache since he swallowed the gum, I tried to easy his anxiety (did he really have any?!) by telling him next time he 'doodied', the gum would be expelled and thus any worry of tummy ache gone.

So for the second half of the day I was charmed with 'gum out tummy doodie' as he proudly proclaimed his accomplishment. I'm not sure who's the smarter one in this relationship.