Mr. Mess

No doubt about it, Liam and Joergen are totally different animals kids.  Liam is an extrovert, Joergen is more of an introvert.  Liam bounces from activity to activity and is go-go-go, Joergen will stick to one thing for a long time and is content to just be.  Liam requires constant interaction and needs to be around people (pretty much always), Joergen is independent and just as happy to be off on his own.  Liam is very neat and tidy, Joergen is... Mr. Mess.

We were first introduced to this messy little man at the dinner table.  Joergen does not just eat food, he wears it!  He truly is what he eats (and perhaps more so what he doesn't eat).  For example:

Eating pasta at Miss Doreen's house

He is often a meal-straight-to-bath kind of a kid (his biggest pet peeve appears to be having his face wiped... go figure).  And don't even ask about his high chair or the floor around it...

Speaking of bath, you can take the kid out of the mess but you can't take the mess out of the kid!

Joergen finds no greater joy than to throw toys out of the tub, scoop water by the cupful and dump it over the side of the tub (yes, onto the floor!), and splash, splash, splash until all in the vicinity are soaked.  Thank goodness for my trusty bath apron and an old towel, which now has permanent residency along the side of the tub during bathtime.

My favorite part of all of this is the mass destruction that Joer will leave in his wake... so you know exactly where he's been and (usually) what he's been up to.  He may be quiet, but he is not subtle!  While doing laundry the other day, I walked by Joergen's room to discover this scene:

This is not atypical.  I had to laugh at the sight of him sitting up against his trashcan, having pulled both it and his diaper genie from their usual spots in the corner, and chucking toys all over his room.  He just loves to make a giant mess and sit in the middle of it with a look of total satisfaction on his face!  As I'm sure you can imagine, some of his favorite toys are things like blocks and his pop-beads: more to dump out on the floor! More to throw all over the room!

As a note of warning, Joergen also likes to turn his messes into basketball games.  So beware when taking out the trash.  Or doing laundry.  I have found many seriously random items in trashcans and hampers in our house...