Taming the OCD

For those of you that know Scotty, you know that he's got a slight case of OCD. And by slight I mean the biggest case of OCD known to man pretty much!!! Own it, Babes!! Well, over the last 2 years we've noticed that Tanner's got some OCD tendencies. Maybe they're just his quirks and maybe he'll outgrow them soon enough, but none-the-less, he IS his father's son!! Now don't get me wrong, Tanner can make a mess with the best of em'. But you let one block in a line be just an inch too far to the left and you can bet your bottom dollar that boy is gonna move it to the right. You can watch him go around the house and move things until they're just so, organize toys together, and has to build things just perfectly. And above all, Tanner HATES to be dirty. I know, I know...not typical of a boy, but he cannot stand for his hands or his clothes to have anything on them. I can remember even before he could talk I would be feeding him in his high chair and if food got on his hands, he would hold them out and grunt until I would wipe them off and then he would go right back to his meal!! So we feel it is our job to help tame the OCD!!

We bundled up one day at the beginning of January and headed outside. I had been sweeping in the garage and Tanner was playing in the leaves on our front steps. I left the broom for a minute and you can see the wheels in his head turning.

And in the name of Neatness he decides no task is too daunting. And so he gets to work. Sweeping.

So I decide to do a little exercise with him!! Bless his heart he thought it was snack time!! I gave him a pudding cup, stripped him down and forced him to paint our glass table with pudding!!!

He's started out being a good sport....

And then when he realized it was a dirty job, he started pleading with me to "Pwease wipe it off!"

I made him paint until most of the pudding was gone!!

He would paint a little and eat a little, but by the end, he was covered from head to toe!!

The only thing left to do was reward him by giving him a bath!!! It kinda back-fired on me because as soon as I started leading him to the bath tub, the phone started ringing, he was so anxious to get to the bathroom I was having a hard time keeping his hands off the walls, trying to take pictures so I could blog this....you get the point. And then to top it all off he pooped in the tub!!! So then I had to clean and disinfect that and start all over!!! Yeh, that's pudding on the wall!! Don't worry, Scott, it wiped right off!! You didn't even know til now!!

I never thought the bath tub could make one kid so happy!!!