I was going through some of my older pictures and found these cute pics of Matthew. He loves to put anything and everything into the dishwasher. I have to unload the clean dishes, shut the door, rinse off the dirty dishes that are waiting to go in, and then load them in. If I leave the door open while I do the rinsing Matthew is able to empty out my entire extra utensil drawer into the dishwasher. I'm not always fast enough with the emptying part of it as you can see from the pictures. He can hear the door opening and he comes running. It's very cute. I cant wait until he's old enough to help unload it.

He also loves to help me sweep. Allison was the same when she was this age. I try to keep him distracted with his truck or tractor book. If I fail at keeping him distracted, he runs to get the dust pan and goes to where my pile of dirt is and tries to scoop it up. Again very cute, but his scoop usually sends the dirt clear across the floor. It's probably more of push, than a scoop.

When Allison was little I would let her hold the dust pan and I would help her hold it as I swept the dirt onto the dust pan. She loved it, when she saw me get the broom out, she would run to get the dust pan. The difference with her is that she would wait until I was done, then she would come running over to help pick it up. Matthew is in the pile before I have the whole floor swept, and I usually have to re-sweep a couple of areas.