Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Dusting

Alright, so we know that Garrett inherited the cleaning gene from my father's side of the family but this is getting ridiculous. This afternoon I was dusting and Garrett was in his playroom. He came out to see what I was up to. Immediately he wanted his own duster. This is a common occurrence so I went to the closest and handed another one to him. He proceeded to follow me around, dusting everything I dusted. When I got into the family room I dusted a little table that we have pushed up against the wall. It wasn't long ago that I dusted it so there was little to clean. I opted not to move the set of coasters we have sitting on that table. Garrett gave me a look, picked the coasters up and dusted underneath them. I'm so not even kidding. My 23 month old son reprimanded me with his eyes and then did a more thorough cleaning job than his 26 year old mother was able to muster. And the frightening thing is, I don't think we've even begun to tap into the depth of his cleaning neurosis.

7 comments:

  1. Well, at least he hasn't tried to clean up my office yet. Though, perhaps it could use a good dusting. Maybe I'll bring him to work with me tomorrow.

    T

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  2. Go, Garrett, go! J

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  3. It just makes me laugh. Oh how he and his father will butt heads as he grows up! If, of course, this continues.

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  4. Has he vacuumed any rocks yet? Did I spell that right?

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  5. oh my gosh, I was just thinking about the vacuuming rocks thing! And I love that you explain that you had just recently dusted that table and that it probably didn't need such a thorough dusting.

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  6. Will be there Sunday, Will see you. GRrrr. :o)

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  7. Its like a mini Danny Tanner. Very funny!

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