Saturday, February 11, 2006

The Vacuum Diaries

Shef will be two in a month. I think he has kind of a long attention span for a two-year-old because throughout his life, his obsession with the vacuum cleaner has not waned.

Here he is with the vacuum cleaner a year ago:




And here he is last week:



There is a little stick at my mom’s house that he pretends is also a vacuum cleaner. In fact, his pretending has gotten quite good – we pretend to eat plastic food, we pretend with finger puppets, and he pretends that he wants to use the toilet.

He knows that if he pretends this last thing, there’s a good chance I’ll let him flush, which is totally worth the trouble of getting naked and pretending to push.

3 comments:

jdoc said...

Is he picky about his vacuums or would he be as excited about my dirt devil as he is about the dyson?

LH said...

there was a character in an anne tyler novel that became obsessed with a vac. the mom ridiculed him. i like how you support shef's habit. i just bought a new green hoover. I should post a foto for him.

Undomestic said...

I was vacuuming tonight (for the first time in about forever), and Max followed me around with his toy dirt devil. I wish his actually worked...would save me time.

Has anyone heard anything good about that robot vacuum cleaner?