This path of destruction has been a well traveled one by our very own Tornado! I have begrudgingly walked this path. You'd think I'd have more pics of his antics. It may come from momentary trauma of a new Tornado touchdown which prevents me from photographing the event. I do know why there aren't any from recent months - - he broke my camera. Yes, I typed broke. Sigh. . . And since I am seriously one of the last humans using a cheap flip phone, I don't bother trying to post pics online. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that he broke my nicer phone, too. Like picked it up and snapped it in two. Thankfully I had the cheap Verizon phone sitting in my closet!
Today I caught him mid-action attempting to shove a pair of kids' scissors into the back of his dad's leather recliner! (Insert heart stopping of a mother.) At one point we heard a terrible cracking sound, and I flew to find him ripping some sort of molding strip off the hall wall! (Insert eye bulging of a mother.) I also happened to walk around the outside of the house to find him with a chunk of brick. That may seem harmless unless you saw the look of gleam in his eye after which he told me, "I frow duh rock and hit duh winnow." I quickly convinced him that it was to his best interest to put the brick back on the ground. (Insert mild heart stopping of a mother.) He also monkeyed right up on top of Troy's car as I was chatting with a neighbor. I wondered just how many cars would pass before someone called child protection services on me. They'd return him to me though. I am sure of that! :-) And those are just a few mention worthy antics for today - 2/2/14.
It's all in a day's work here at the castle! It doesn't take much time to quickly fill a list of some of his devastation. Enjoy our Top 10:
1. There has been the breaking of 3 pole lamps so far in the den. For now we are keeping the crooked one until we know it's safe to purchase another.
2. He randomly picked up the laptop and gave it a toss across the hardwood floor. In case you're ever interested in doing that yourself, be prepared to replace the hard drive. (Unless, of course, your laptop is fluffier than ours and gently bounces.)
3. He once randomly whacked the keyboard of the laptop (poor laptop) which resulted in a $125 repair.
4. One of the most expensive things up to this point was when the dear boy decided to flush a Lincoln Log down the toilet. And in case you're wondering about that, they do not conform to the drains which results in a plumber removing the toilet and retrieving the moldly Lincoln Log.
5. Most dangerous may have been when he found the matches, somehow figured out how to light one, and set in on the kitchen floor! Thankfully I had just entered the room! That one still scares me!!!! Matches are now almost under lock and key!
6. Funniest antic may have been right after we moved to our new house (Sept '12), and he escaped as I was assembling a few chairs. He escaped in high fashion as well!!!!!!!! Stripped off his diaper in the driveway and decided to smear the contents of a just happened poo on the concrete and the side of our white van. Then in his wet clothing proceeded to waddle to the neighbor's house (I had met them once.) and starting beating on one of their lawn ornaments with a stick. She kindly brought him home and still became a friend of mine. :-)
7. Sneakiest one would probably be the time he tried to lock me out of the house. Thankfully the little guy had forgotten to lock the side entrance, and I rushed in to find him on the counter getting ready to turn on the electric knife!
8. His human nature was quite obvious the time he jumped off the potty before I could wipe his little bottom and slid onto the white couch. He then looked at the lovely brown mark and went down the whole list of his brothers. Amazing how young they are when they begin to pass the blame!
9. In milder things, he's dumped glue all over a chair, written on the white van with a black marker, scaled fences to play on neighbors' swingsets, opened gates to let neighbors' dogs loose, flushed oodles of things down toilets to the point we had to lock bathroom doors from the outside, has emptied more shampoo bottles than I care to mention, has broken blinds, dumped all the fish food on the dear fish so many times, has placed numerous items in with the fish, has written all over walls, books, himself, computers. . .
10. And as for library materials, don't ask. We thought he was out of that destructive stage until last month when he decided to again randomly snap a library DVD in two. That's always fun to explain to the librarian.
On the flip side, he's pretty cute and lovable. :-)
Good thing!
And if you ever hear of child insurance,
please tell us!
