I Do It Myself!

I've been hearing the words, "I do it myself" a lot from our young Hugo. Sometimes I luck out and get to continue to do things my own way. Sometimes I give him two choices to decide between. This morning Hugo had a chance to decide between his shirt with the ghosts or the one with the race cars. He chose the cars. A half hour ago we were dressing for outside. First, we needed to haul wood for the night and second, we needed some fun in the falling snow before dinner. Hugo wanted to put his boots on all by himself. I wanted him to wear his snow boots and to hurry, he wanted his lizard boots and was taking his own sweet time - killing me softly i might add. I gave in and waited. I leaned against the door and wondered what would I cook tonight... hmmm? It wasn't until after we had gotten our fill of wood and begun to play in the new snow that I noticed his boots were on the wrong feet. Ooops! So I guess that is the new stage we've entered. Learning the difference between left and right and which boot goes with which foot. This is a very important stage.