Past Adventures in Curiosity and Creativity
So I thought I’d share some of the adventures and messes we’ve had recently. You must understand that my children require constant supervision or disaster strikes. In the time it takes to change the babies diaper or go to the bathroom a whole room can be destroyed. So most of the time I have to make sure both of my boys are within my site at all times (which takes a lot of planning and energy). But here are some of the things that have happened when I have turned my back on my boys for a few minutes.
Spilling and entire gallon of white paint on our living room carpet (the lid was not on tight and he tried to carry it)(that one actually came out miraculously with the use of a wetvac and several hours of hard labor), Coloring on almost every surface of our house whenever a pen, pencil, crayon, etc is left within their reach, playing/ swimming in the toilet, spilling dark green paint on the rug (that one did not come out and there is still a light green stain), color all over the house with black permanent marker, break my flour canister (full of gluten), eat sugar out of the container with a spoon, getting their own breakfast ( whole box of kix all over the kitchen floor), get into a bag of flour and spill it all over the floor, spill oatmeal all over the kitchen, getting into the refrigerator and pour condiments all over himself and the kitchen, take a bite out of every piece of fruit in the kitchen and leave the rest, pull out every dvd we own, pull all the books off the shelve, break tiny holes in our plasma tv with their toys, and many many many more adventures. He is always so quiet and sneaky when making these messes and knows the perfect time to strike. Oh look mom is upstairs changing Zeal’s diaper or getting the bath ready lets make a mess. One of our most recent messes occurred yesterday when Mercury sprayed pam (cooking oil) all over the kitchen and we didn’t realize till some time later when his Daddy almost killed himself slipping in it. It was everywhere on the floor, microwave, stove, table, chairs, on food packages…a big slippery, oily greasy mess. It took quite a while to clean up.
Here is some footage of a few of our messes 🙂
So I should add that there was also permanent marker IN his ears that day! That part actually did make me laugh!
Oh my heck. Mercury is definitely a spirited little boy. I can see why you would freak out about the permanent marker. It definitely put in perspective how much I can overreact to things Mazie does. I am glad you have found a way to vent and I’m glad I get to follow your happenings a bit easier now as life gets so busy there’s never time for phone calls!
Oh. My. Word.
I saw the artwork in person, but the running commentary sure adds a lot. I love how you sound so calm about the whole thing, Dave. It absolutely cracked me up. And it was funny to hear you genuinely upset about it, Alicia, because when you called me after said incident of unspeakable artistry, I remember that you were (kind of) starting to see the funny part of it. Sort of. I think. It’s been a while.
So. The million dollar question:
Is it funny yet?
So. It’s been 3 days. Any more adventures to report?
🙂
Hahahahahahaha, nice moment to capture for the family. Thanks for avoiding the dead children scenario – I think we can relate.