So we got this new lens – a prime lens, it’s called.  Which works differently than our other lenses.  There’s no zoom, for one thing, and you have to focus it yourself?  I think?  Anyway, it’s hard to get used to.

But I’m trying.  I just finished the most amazing online photography course and am having SO MUCH FUN.

But this lens is tricky.

So anyway, I was futzing around with the camera during R’s nap.  Pax was up (they are on opposite schedules, GROAN) and had climbed up on the step-stool so he could stand at the counter and play with whatever.

Whatever, in this case, being my full mug of luke-warm hot chocolate/egg nog excitement gone slightly awry (no, no alcohol involved).

So Pax grabbed a spoon and would stir it, taste it, then shriek.  Then stir, taste, shriek.  And the kid continued to play like this for roughly 20 minutes straight as I snapped a few pics.

Then things started to get ugly.

He finally realized that mugs have a pour feature.

And this face was when he realized that there was a waterfall of chocolate hitting his little feet:

As I ran around like a maniac and tried to clean up the floor, Pax realized that there was another fun toy left out for him by his idiot mother:

That hand (excuse the blurriness) is covered in unsweetened cocoa powder, people.  I had left out the can of cocoa powder.

Sigh.

I wipe him down and change him and run out to quickly find the broom.  But the little sucker is fast.  This is what I return to:

You lookin’ for this, Mum?

Yes. Yes I was.

Staredown.

He wins.

So I let him play happily (hearing, at one point, a spitty PBBBBBTTTT!!! after he shoved unsweetened cocoa powder into his mouth – live and learn, kid) until he was done playing.  And for Pax, done is DONE.  He’s really quite clear on this point.

Mike was coming home late – he had a holiday boondoggle business meeting that involved cocktails (Oh, the trials of Mr. Important)…so I was seriously tempted to leave this for him:

For the record, I did NOT.

In related news, we are out of wine.