Seriously Impressed

This afternoon, I was getting ready to decorate my sugar cookies so I could take a cookie tray to our small group Christmas Party. I wanted to try a new recipe and realized that it called for Corn syrup (Which I did not have). Callie was asleep and could potentially sleep another hour. If I waited that long, the cookies wouldn't be dry enough to place on trays...

Since it was Wednesday Kyle was home from school. So I decided that for a 10 minute trip as long as he had a phone, Kyle could man the fort. He is a responsible level headed kid. So I told him what I was going to do and he agreed. I said I'd be gone 20 minutes at the very most.

So I went right to hyvee, bought corn syrup, and came right home. I was gone 12 minutes. When I get home, I hear Kyle upstairs and find him in Callie's room. Apparently she had woke up while I was gone. I was proud that he had listened, heard her, and came to get her. When I come into the room, I notice that Kyle is holding a diaper in his hand like he was going to the trash can. Yuck! Did we leave a poopy diaper in the room?

Then Kyle says to me...hold on mom.. I got to throw this away and then put Callie's skirt on. I figured since she had her tights and onesie, I should throw the diaper away and then put the skirt on. What? Suddenly, it occurs to me... He changed her diaper! I have never asked him to do that, never explained how one does that and would've expected him to wait. I mean the diaper he had in his hand was stinky!!!!!

I was so impressed. He is a nine year old boy who willing changed a pooey diaper and he did it well. I mean the diaper was on appropriately. Her tights and onesie were on. She was happy, he was happy. (Next time I changed her I thought I'd find some residue, but nothing!). Nothing on her clothes, nothing on the changing station except the wipes, he didn't know to put them in the diaper to throw away..

So I told him how impressed I was and surprised. To which he said, "Well Mom, I was in charge, what was I going to do just leave her in a poopy diaper?" I didn't tell him, but I thought most nine year old boys would've done just that.

Kyle..you are a VERY good big brother! It makes me excited to thing that the time where I can run to the store while he is in charge is closer to reality that I realized!