Austin’s building blocks

So, one day while I was packing up the kitchen to move to our new house, Austin decided to help me.  I look over and Austin says, “Mom, it’s so big!!!”  He was so proud of himself that he had stacked this canned food so high.  I ran to get my camera to document this proud moment of his.

This is Austin’s really excited/proud face.

He was so proud about how high he could stack that he kept on stacking.

and stacking…

and stacking… He was at it for a really long time.  He thought it was so fun that I was taking pictures of his accomplishment.  He would add a can and then come see the picture I took of his new addition. When the stack would get to high and start to wobble he would say, “Nope, that’s too big!” and then start a new tower.  I thought this would be a one-time thing because all the cans were just lying around in boxes.  NOPE!!!

Once we moved into our new house, every time I turned around Austin was getting into the cupboards and stacking all the cans.  Every time he did it he would say, “Take a picture, mom!”

After a while I got tired of taking pictures every time he took all the cans out of the cupboard.  Not to mention how annoying it is to have to put away cans every five minutes.  I told Austin not to stack the cans anymore, just his blocks.  For the first time in his life he actually did what I told him and he hasn’t stacked the cans since.  Kind of sad now that I look back.  But not that sad, because my cans actually stay where they are supposed to be.