My little tease

This post is about Austin. I've noticed some things he does these past few weeks. Climbing is a huge one but the one that surprises me is what a tease he is. At first I just thought he was testing his boundaries but after multiple incidents I realized that Austin is a tease. The kid loves to pester people. Here are a few examples...

Carter was quietly playing with one of his trains. It has four cars and he was lying on his side driving them along the carpet totally content. Austin was playing with some other toys in the same room and I was knitting. Pretty soon I noticed Austin staring at Carter. Then he walked over to where Carter was playing and bent down like he wanted to watch. Carter kept playing and then Austin quickly grabbed one of the train cars and RAN across the room laughing his head off. He thought he was so clever. I gave the train car back to Carter who resumed playing and then tried to get Austin interested in some other toys. He played for a second and then decided it was way more fun to grab the train away from Carter and get chased so he proceeded to do that. Luckily Carter found it funny too so they played chase for a while.

Second incident.. I was sitting on the couch knitting. I don't know what it is but my kids are fascinated with yarn. I ended up putting a few balls of left over yarn in the toys so they could play with it and would leave mine alone. Anyway, I'm knitting away and Austin discovers that I've got a skein of yarn hidden between my body and the couch and comes over to try to get it. When I wouldn't let him have it he turned away and acted like he was trying to decide what toys he wanted to play with. I turned my attention back to the hat I was working on and as soon as I was preoccupied Austin turned, grabbed the yarn and started to run. When I got up to retrieve my yarn Austin ran faster and put my yarn in his mouth!! He ended up falling because he was laughing so hard and I was able to pry my yarn from his fingers and mouth. What a goofball!!

Austin totally gets what he's doing. He knows he's teasing you. I never would have thought that a 15 month old could be such a tease. We are going to be in so much trouble when he gets older. The sad thing is I can't blame this on anyone else, well maybe my Dad. I'm almost positive he gets it from the Doney side of the family.