my apprentice

Today weather wise was absolutley perfect!  We spent a good portion of our day outside playing and working.  This afternoon we came inside and I off-handedly mentioned to Justin that Rachel's birthday was coming up and we needed to think about a present.  Since Rachel was going to come over - he decided that she needed a cake.  So he got right to work.  Her birthday is actually 2 weeks away, but he didn't care - he is the sweetest!

And… a few Justin stories to preserve: 

Today was an "open the windows up and let the warm air come in" kind of day.  I was in the back yard setting the sprinkler to water the weeds grass and was too vigorous with turning the water on at first.  I adjusted it so that it was perfect and came inside to spy Justin retrieving towels from the kitchen to wipe up the sprinkler water on the floor that had come into the open window.  It was almost like he didn't even think twice and just went about covering up the wet floor.  Wiping it up would have been better, but the fact that he was fixing the issue and doing so without alerting me was kinda awesome.

The following weekend Justin had some left over candy he brought home with him, it was on the coffee table and he would always ask me if he could eat one at various times throughout the week.  Again I was out back watering and Justin was inside - when I came back into the house Justin told me to sit down and that he was sleepy and was going to go upstairs and take a nap!  Really?!  He told me to turn the TV on and sit down.  I knew something was up.  I also knew the box of candy was missing from the coffee table.  I asked him if he had the nummies, he said he did not - I knew he did, but didn't let on.  He sat out of my site on the stairs and unwrapped a candy and ate it and then came back down in the living room telling me that he had a good rest.  I let him think he pulled the wool over my eyes and later pointed out that he left his wrappers on the stairs. 

And Justin has also started doing the "hey! Look over there!" bit when he doesn't want me to see something that he is doing.  I am not sure where he learned this trick, but again I let him "fool" me over and over.