No, I Do It!

This is what I hear all day, "No, I do it!"  I'm sure all mom's or grandmother's of two year olds can relate!  Jacob is in that self-sufficient stage where he wants to do  e v e r y t h i n g  by himself!  It starts first thing in the morning when he arrives and we go into the kitchen to get breakfast.  He has to climb up into his counter stool that has the little baby seat attached, has to latch the seatbelt himself and has to eat with no assist from Nani.  Then we reverse the routine and he has to unlatch the seatbelt, climb down and go upstairs where he has to take a DVD out of the case all by himself!  They are hard to get out and he's actually cracked one before trying to get it out so I usually try and assist as unobtrusively as I can.  I'm not complaining... he's getting to be a big boy now and as often as I hear, "No, I do it," I also hear "Oh yeah!"  Here's a photo of Jacob from our little getaway last week.  He's intrigued by the firepit!