My busy 20 month old.

Buster is our little clown, our mess maker, our sneak, and our candy Houdini.

Buster loves FOOD, and could eat all day long. Thankfully he is not a picky eater at all. As long as it's edible he will eat it, well, accept for straight up lemons, no wait - he ended up liking that too after a while. I know what you're thinking, "evil parents".  Trust me, it was worth his hilarious sour expressions. Ok, I'm evil.

I love the picture on the left where he is licking his arm. He forgot where his Popsicle was, and then after I took the picture, he immediatly stopped licking his arm and got a confused look on his face. When he located his Popsicle once again, he got a big smile and resumed the licking.

Buster loves exploring.

 But mostly, he loves climbing on top of things he shouldn't be, usually to sneak something.

Honestly, we have so many fun toys of all shapes and sizes, but this kid doesn't want anything to do with any of them. If I he is in the kitchen with me, which is where I spend most of my time, which means it's where he spends most of his time, if I turn my back for one second he has usually climbed on top of a counter or a table and has spilled over either the remains of a green smoothie, a cup of milk, or a cup of water.  I can't tell you how many spills in a day I clean up. If he weren't so darn cute, I might actually be upset, but I usually just smile and call him my rascal and set him down from the table and clean up the mess.   I've started having him help to wipe up the spills. He grunts while he does it. I don't know where he gets that from, its so odd, but funny too. 

When he's not busy climbing on top of something, he sorts through the trash, or puts things in the trash (that aren't trash). I guess it's what he sees us doing, he just doesn't know what is trash and what isn't. 

He really is quite the little Houdini, especially when it comes to candy. Like my other children, he has a sensor that goes off somewhere in his body when he senses sugar is near. The other day we were at a party and Buster went missing for about 5 or 10 minutes. I wasn't worried, because their house, thankfully, was very child proof. When he finally meandered back in the room where we were all hanging out, he had a sucker in his mouth. It turns out, that in the five minutes he had gone missing, he had found and ingested one bag of m&m's, one bag of skittles, and a sucker. We know this, because we found the evidence in the office of the host of the party. There on top of the office desk was a big glass vase full of candy. Buster spotted it, pushed a chair over to the desk, climbed on top of the desk and took the lid off of the vase and began picking out his loot. After eating a few bags of candy, he decided to go for the sucker, but the vase was too tall for his little arms to reach that sucker. So, he somehow, gently pulled this huge heavy vase onto the floor below, where he then dumped out its contents until he got his sucker.  Houdini I tell you.  The Candy Houdini. That's going to be his new nickname.

 Buster loves playing with Warner. Having two boys close together is so fun. They get so crazy together. It's hilarious to watch them fight, because Warner will take a swing at Buster, but purposely miss, because he is kind of a tender little soul, after all usually he just swings his arms to shoo Buster away from whatever he is messing with, which is usually something Warner has worked hard to create. Well, anyway, the other day Warner took a swing, and only sort of made contact, then he turned to walk away, and Buster just straight up charged him while growling angrily. Buster grabbed the back of Warner's shirt and yanked as hard as he could. Warner went down and started whimpering  This struck a funny bone in Buster, and in a moment all of his anger was replaced by laughter of the conquering sort. This surprised Warner, and made him laugh. It then turned into a giggle fest, and it ended with Warner running out of the room, and Buster toddling happily after him. Within seconds they went from a brawl to happily playing. I love them.

 Seriously what's not to love? Look at this little snuggle buns.