caught red handed (and mouthed)

those cookies must have been really good because after i put the boys to bed, i went in to say good night to madelyn. i heard manning come out of his room and walk over towards our bedroom and figured he found matt because he never came into madelyn's room. nope. he didn't find daddy. he found cookies. matt took this picture for me when he found manning sitting at the table with a fist full of cookies and a mouth so full that he couldn't close it. sigh.

manning has been in a help-myself-to-food phase this weekend. it is sort of like the i-can-get-my-own-water phase from last week. he will go into the pantry, get the bag of crasins, fill his bowl and sit down in the pantry to eat them. or he will get the crackers, or cereal, or anything else that seems tasty at the time and help himself. he isn't sneaking the food. he thinks that he is just being helpful by not bothering us with getting his food for him.

it did take him a little longer to wind down last night. love.