Just let me help!

I have recently learned that trying to clean while keeping a 1 year old distracted so he doesn't realize I am cleaning just pisses him off and makes him do anything he possibly can to ruin what I have just cleaned.  So in order to keep things in order while cleaning I just have to let him help.  By helping, he does all sorts of household chores like carrying around a little dust broom and dust pan and brushes at the invisible spots on the floor, actually who am I kidding, there are no invisible spots on our floor those are real spots, anyhow this makes him joyfully happy.

While doing laundry instead of telling him to get off the pile of dirty clothes or stop sticking your head in the dryer while I'm trying to put clothes in it, I just let him actually climb in the dryer for a little while and then when he gets out and we fill it up with clothes, he is the one to shut the door and then he claps for himself because he was such a big help.

He vacuums with the hand held vacuum and if I dare turn it off while he is using it oh boy he really gets pissed. In the meantime Hunter is trying to watch tv, turned up as high as it goes just so his brother can act like he is vacuuming and if this makes Zander happy then everybody is happy.

 

When trying to take apart the regular vacuum because something rank is emanating from it, and who can believe that anything in our house would make a vacuum stink, with 2 dogs and 2 kids anything is possible!  He is right there to help me with the screwdriver trying with all his might to unscrew the screws and then help take it apart and put it back together.

What would I honestly do without my little helper?  Clean the house in half the time that's what I would do, but it wouldn't be as much fun!