Although I really don't have time to sit down and blog right now, I absolutely have to tell the world about Trenton's little adventure through out the night and early this morning!!
So, last night as I was putting Trenton to bed, I was explaining to him that when I tell him to clean his room today, I need him to do it without fussing and without me helping him because I have so much to get done today before heading out on vacation early tomorrow morning. And while in the mix of explaining this to him, I was explaining to him that when I tell him to get up in the morning (today) he really needs to get up and not be too sluggish on me because we had to be at the rental car place at 9 am in order to rent a car to drive on vacation.Cavaliers may be the best darn thing since sliced bread when it comes to gas mileage on road trips, but unfortunately, they don't exactly have the most leg room or trunk room for road trips. So a rental car was a must have this time around for a trip!! While telling him about the rental car, he started asking me "why can we not be late? do they only have one car?" knowing I shouldn't, I said "yep they just have one so whoever gets there first is the one that gets it!" Even though I lied, I wanted to make sure he knew how important it was for us to get there on time.. After telling him all of these important things we have to do today, he agreed that he would be good and do what he was told and after a kiss goodnight, and a good tucking in, I went to bed myself.
At 4 am, I was woke up by Trenton coming into my bedroom saying "maaaama, you're going to be so proud of me! I cleaned my room spotless all by myself!!" After realizing it is 4 am, I asked him what he was doing awake and he said " I just stayed up all night so I wouldn't make you late to go get the car in the morning!!" Without hesitating, I got onto him for staying up all night and told him to go get in the bed right then. He has pulled this staying up all night shenanigan a few times before and it always makes me feel so freaking bad. It worries me. Just knowing he was up all night without anybody up with him makes me feel bad.. and knowing he goes in the kitchen and gets a snack and stuff tears me up too because I can't help but think what if he went to get a snack and for some reason got choked on it? There I would be in the bed and have no clue it is happening.
Then, 5 am rolls around. Here comes Trenton. "Maaaaama, I have my shorts on, my shirt on, my flip flops on, my hat on, my watch on, and my sunglasses on!" Needless to say, this time I decided to go on and get up being it was obvious he still hadn't went to bed yet. And being I had just gotten good and asleep, when I rolled out of bed, I wasn't by no means in the best spirit! But when I came out into the living room and took one look at him, I instantly felt bad for having that hateful presence about me! There he stood with everything he mentioned on. He was the sweetest and cutest little thing standing there. He had on a pair of basketball jersey shorts that were black and gray, a t-shirt that was brown and orange horizontal striped, a navy ball cap, white aviator sunglasses, a Lego watch his uncle d bought him, and camouflage flip flops. It was almost like he was so mismatched, it was precious. Just looking at him and seeing everything that he picked out for himself to wear melted my heart! And along with his little get up he had picked out, he had drawings from his wrists to his shoulders. When I asked him what in the world he had done to his arms, he said "these are my cool tattoos!" again... only Trenton!! :) After talking to him about how proud I was that he took it upon himself to get dressed, and telling him how good he looked, I finally made my debut to his bedroom to see what his "spotless cleaning job" looked like. Boy, let me tell ya! When I opened his door and looked in, I was in such shock!! I couldn't believe it! He wasn't kidding! At all!! His room was SPOTLESS! He had put everything where it goes and not just shoved it all to the sides like he normally tries to do and tell me it is cleaned! He even had his bed spread pulled up to his pillows although it wasn't exactly wrinkle free. After seeing his room, and seeing him so mismatched it was almost pitiful, the anger from him staying up all night was gone. How in the world could I be mad at the little guy for doing everything that I had asked of him? Especially when he was being so sweet about it! Just hearing how proud he was in his own little soft voice pulled my heart strings!
And after sitting on the couch with him for a while watching cartoons, I had dozed back off. At 7 am, he says "mommy, wake up! you have to get dressed so we can be the first people to go get the car!" After waking back up and sitting on the couch a minute before heading to get a shower myself, Trenton looked at me and said "mommy are you proud that I did everything you wanted me to do? you told me to clean my room by myself and I did spotless, and you asked me to get up this morning without fussing to get dressed and I am already dressed, and I stayed up all night so that i wouldn't make you late to get the car today" Reassuring him that he made me the proudest, although it worried me that he stayed up all night by himself, I then felt horrible that I told him what I did about the car making him so worried we would be late.
Call if what ya want. Me having too much of a forgiving heart when it comes to Trenton, me having to much of an "awww everything he does is so cute" attitude when it comes to Trenton, or call it just stinkin' precious and cute like I have all day. Either way, once again, this little boy just made my day! Again...only Trenton!!
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