I don't know how "normal" almost 2 year olds are supposed to act, but mine is outrageously mischievous! The kid literally cannot sit still for longer than 10 seconds! I couldn't possibly name all of the messes Colin has made this week, (not to mention the things he's broken or gotten into) but here are some of the top ones (that I recall, anyway):
He bathed himself in Nutella... literally. Covered from head to toe with liberal blobs on the floor thrown in for good measure.
He bathed himself in iced tea.
He dumped out a full spice jar of ground ginger on my couch and floor.
He took his full bowl of organic cocoa puffs and started throwing them like confetti around the living room/kitchen/dining area.
He dumped a full costco bag of tortilla chips out onto the table.
He emptied all of the soap out of my dish scrubber and onto the floor at least four times.
He emptied the soap container from the bathroom out all over the bathroom floor/wall in the hallway at least three times.
He dumped the old coffee grounds out onto the counter and started eating them.
He rips off his diapers within a minute of me putting them on him, unless I use duct tape!
He dumped cereal on the scanner part of the copier and slammed the top down to crush them into powder.
He emptied an almost full bottle of vinegar cleaner by spraying it all over kingdom come.
He dumped out 2 cups of baking soda on the carpet.
He ruined my computer keyboard.
He broke the wires on the blu ray player cord so it only places if you get it pressed in just so.
He got a dvd stuck in the blu ray player so Daddy had to take the whole thing apart to get it out (this was after I tried unsuccessfully for an hour to get it out with tweezers and a spatula... which only resulted in a broken dvd)
And the pièce de résistance: He got a jar of black bean sauce out of the fridge and dumped the whole thing out on the kitchen floor. I was relieved it had been limited to one area so I quickly cleaned it up and went about trying to get my washer to work. About 15 minutes later, I walked into my bedroom to retrieve a diaper and discovered that the black bean sauce was on my walls, my floor, and my bedding.
All of that was just a week's worth of the havoc this child has wreaked.
Lord, how long is this stage of bustling destruction going to last?! I am only 30, but I already feel like I'm too old for this. The absolute cherry on top though is that since Will is working out of town, 100% of the messes are all mine to clean up; no breaks, no time off for good behavior... It's all me, all day. I don't know how the military spouses and single parents do it! It's just awful.
Sorry for the grumpy subject matter, I hope to have more positive feelings and thoughts to share with you later. But until then, good luck to me and anyone in my position!
Rachelle
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