tomorrow is the day!

tomorrow is the day that he starts swimming lessons! He was eligible for swimming lessons (without me) once he turned three but with a busy fall and I know November and December was going to be busy as well I decided to hold off until the new year. He is excited. We've been talking about how once he goes to swimming lessons that his teacher is the boss and he needs to listen and obey her. My son is very strong willed and I know he behaves better for people other than me (except for his grandparents).His sunday school teacher thinks he is an angel!
One of my biggest struggle these days is that he feels a need to climb things in order to reach stuff that is put up high (put up high for his own safety). He takes it as a personal challenge. And more often than not he succeeds. And he knows he isn't supposed to. But he does it anyway on the sly. Which means that his freedom is being reduced! I am tired of the mischief. Which means that there is less time for me to accomplish things around the house, or less time for him to have free play. Either way, he is learning that it is no fun to get into mischief as that means a lot of time in his room. I love my son dearly but days like today I am exhausted!
Also I would like to know WHY he feels a need to shut my fridge off. The stupid temperature adjustment is just inside the door and he knows that if he turns the dial, the motor on the fridge turns off. He likes that power or something. I have found my fridge turned off three times. So now every time I open the fridge, I need to double check the dial to make sure that the temperature is ok.
On a positive side we had fun doing some new math games today, he LOVES doing the calendar each day and filling in the weather chart.  His colouring is coming along, he asks to paint almost daily as well as to cut and paste. My boy LOVES to craft! Our bible verse for this week is Proverbs 17:22 and we talk about it each breakfast and lunch.
This morning he woke up VERY excited to see a white wonderland! We've been green and brown for over a week. It has been snowing all day (lightly) and maybe if it keeps up we'll be able to make a snowman. Which he has been asking to do since he saw the first snow flake fall this year :)  The little bit of snow we had for Christmas wasn't packing snow. Though it was good for sledding.
For Christmas I gave myself three packages of pull-ups. I've done cloth with him since he came and he has always struggled with not soaking through in the night (I toilet him before going to bed just so he'll be a tiny less wet by morning) I am also finding that he is sleeping later in the morning as he isn't waking up due to being wet. My parents use pull-ups on the weekends (he only needs them when he is sleeping). I am undecided if I will use them beyond these three packages. I LOVE the idea of cloth. I LOVE how much money I have saved with cloth. I also like getting up at 7am rather than 5am. I use cloth mostly with his afternoon nap as most times he wakes up dry anyway....that is just my diaper conundrum.
Today I made a huge pot of beef and barley soup. Unfortunately it wasn't ready at lunch time and I resorted to a can of zoodles (something that was only in my cupboard because it was purchased for the food bank and it was missed when we dropped things in the bin on the way out of the grocery store). I was feeling so guilty for feeding it to him. I have never fed him canned pasta before. He HATED it! :) which makes me happy inside. He know garbage food when he tastes it! I grew eating the stuff but really when I look at it I just don't personally want to be feeding it to my kid.