All By Hisself

Luke's ongoing independence kick has Kenny and I ready to scream on a daily basis. He adds new things he "need do by myself" every day, usually without precedent, and each one adds at least two to three minutes to our daily routine. Heaven forbid we forget and do something for him, because that requires a complete start-over of the entire process. For example: whenever we drive anywhere, Luke must open the car door, climb in, shut the car door behind him (we always have to sneak help on this one, but it has to seem like he shut it himself or he will insist on doing it over), and climb into his carseat unaided or else a major tantrum is triggered. 

In this case, Luke decided to throw some leaves from a flower on our kitchen table all over the floor and then insisted he clean it up himself. And to his credit he did a pretty good job! Perhaps all of our pseudo-patience is paying off.