The pleasures and disappointments in the life of a 2-year-old

Pleasures:

hot chocolate . . . . Joseph loves hot chocolate and will bring me a "just add water packet" from the pantry about once a day.

cookies - we currently are trying out the Cars -Teddy Grahams

cake-cake - we currently are out of cake-cake so this also classifies as a disappointment

soup - "mmmm soup" which leads to "more soup?" . . . his favorite soup is "Hot & Sour"

coloring - especially if mama sits down and colors with him

"Little Joe" - we seemed to have moved on from watching "Cars" daily to now getting our daily fix of "The Ballad of Little Joe." Is it bad that I let him watch it on the portable DVD player and that he knows which buttons to push to restart it for himself when it's over?

Disappointments:

cake-cake - as previously mentioned

balloon - which started out as such a pleasure today. It was also a pleasure/thrill to watch it float up into the sky. For about 15 seconds. Then disappointment ensued. Loudly. For about 10 minutes. Then pleading. "please (sob, sniff, hiccup) mama (sob, sniff, hiccup) outside (sob, sniff, hiccup) get (sob, sniff, hiccup) balloon (sob, sniff, hiccup)." Then "Joe?!" . . . . and on goes the portable DVD player, out come the crayons and life just became pleasurable again.