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Things kids do

"now that dad screwed all the windows shut, break the glass to push out the screens and escape"
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do they ALL do that? Ouch! yeah, that isn't so funny. Oops, that's two four year olds. All my kids are in their rooms, so I'm less distracted now.

Aiy yi yi! Kids! My middle son will be six soon. He's a sweetie, and no longer tries to escape. I can't wait till the one year old starts to figure that escapism out...ack!
 
My son is the more difficult one. My daughter is to the point where she understands what you say to her.
That helps.
Aside from the occasional shrieking fits, and having to be careful what i bring into her enviornment, she's pretty easy.

My son Isaac on the other hand...
Makes me worry.

Whomp!
 
Little miss Zeplette (when about 18 months) watched grandpa paint her room. Paint can in room with lid on, child unattended while mum answers phone...

Lid taken off full paint tin with screwdriver, hands dipped in paint, paint dribbled across NEW carpet, daubed on front of TV, daubed on newly painted walls in lounge-room, ditto bathroom door, ditto carpet into berdroom...child found by mother standing on top of grandpa's ladder daubing paint on ceiling.

...child is lucky to be still alive, quite frankly...
 
ahhhh Zep, that reminds me!
Markers! Or pens, or pencils, or crayons.

My daughter has impeccible radar for a writing utensil from which your attention has wandered for several picoseconds.

Our living room has flat (read - nonwashable) paint.

I finally gave up one day, sat down and started coloring on the wall with her. Now it's become a family activity.

First time visitors to my home usually spend their first few minutes reading our livingroom walls. Pictures, sayings, tag-lines ... they're all there.

If ya can't beat 'em ,,,

Whomp!
 
well, I've just poured a full bottle of the Draino stuff into my kitchen sink...it isn't working.

could it be that Draino doesn't work on marbles? Younger daughter was changing her fish bowl...
 
Just the other day I brought home two servings of sushi for me and my wife. I left it unattended on the table while I changed clothes and my three year old daughter just opened one serving and ATE ALL THE FISH. I was left with 15$ worth of plain rice , ginger and wasabi.

Dang.

Zee
 
Well, your daughter has good taste! :D

Our 20-month-old has learned to do all kinds of interesting things. She can now operate the TV, the CD jam box in her room (she can even put a CD in...sometimes she puts it in the correct way), and 3 different remotes. She is also learning how to work her father. If she yells loudly enough, followed by a big sunny smile, she gets whatever she wants. Not a good sign.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
Oh no! Yep, you have to fish them out cause draino would take a while to eat through marbles :)
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They will be very clean marbles, however :D

The only thing that I can think of that I did which caused some upset to my parents* was, at the age of about 18 months, to squeeze through some railings on a balcony, resulting into a fall of about twelve feet onto on ice rink. Apparently I landed exactly on the top of my head, which they believe saved me from serious injury. Ahem.

* I'm sure there are others, but this is the only one I can think of ;)
 
So, there we were, at a bat cave somewhere in Arizona. I was 4 and bored, (the bats weren't flying, we were still waiting). I found a small piece of tire and inserted it into my nose. In my attempts to extract it I shoved it far enough up that it was intruding on my sinus. I shreaked in agony for a time until my mother realized that something really was wrong with me and they took me to the hospital. She said I sat quite still while the doctor extracated the vulcanized rubber. I don't remember any of it.
 
Kitten was a little world traveller. She enjoyed flying, and when crossing the Atlantic she would find someone that was really phobic about flying and explain to them how neat it would be if the plane crashed in the ocean. She would show them the emergency card and point out the cool raft we would get to use, and where the neat life jackets were that came with flashlights! She would say, "boy, I hope the plane goes down!"
this was at age 3!
 
Video madness

I was once staining my deck while up on a ladder. My 5 year old son was the only one around the house with me. He was in the den playing with his Nintendo. I lost my footing and came down on my head and back. I hit hard and it scared me. My wrist was broken in three places and you could clearly see that. I was afraid to move because I didn't know what I had done to my back.

I called to my son. He stuck his head out the den door, "Yeah Dad" "Call 911 and tell them I have taken a bad fall" "OK, Dad, just as soon as I finish this level" and the door was promptly slammed shut while I lay there. Needless to say he didn't FINISH THE LEVEL!!!

Then there was the time that the same den had water flooding into it. I found out later that "someone" had put rocks down the drainage pipe and filled it up so far that I had to dig 20 feet up to clear it. When I asked him about it, I found out how cool it was that he could put so many in - fascinating

Bentspoon
 
Re: Video madness

Bentspoon said:
I was once staining my deck while up on a ladder. My 5 year old son was the only one around the house with me. He was in the den playing with his Nintendo. I lost my footing and came down on my head and back. I hit hard and it scared me. My wrist was broken in three places and you could clearly see that. I was afraid to move because I didn't know what I had done to my back.

I called to my son. He stuck his head out the den door, "Yeah Dad" "Call 911 and tell them I have taken a bad fall" "OK, Dad, just as soon as I finish this level" and the door was promptly slammed shut while I lay there. Needless to say he didn't FINISH THE LEVEL!!!

Then there was the time that the same den had water flooding into it. I found out later that "someone" had put rocks down the drainage pipe and filled it up so far that I had to dig 20 feet up to clear it. When I asked him about it, I found out how cool it was that he could put so many in - fascinating

Bentspoon
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I have a kid that would have finished the level before calling 911 too, and two darlings who would never do that-I think...

Yow! So, what did you do to him :)
 
Blue fingerpaint + bottom of of white futon his parents made = mucho fun for 3-year-old Cecil.

Then there was the time I carved my name with a knife into the top of my grandmother's antique leather coffee table. She was pretty angry about that. :o
 
They still do things when they get older.

Our when our youngest was six or seven she decided to take a permanent marker and write "Mom is the Best" (at least that's what she says she meant to write) on the fridge. Unfortunately she is not a good speller, so she wrote "Mom is the Beast"

She gets very embarrased now when that gets brought up.
 
I went to an information meeting about becoming a foster parent (as if we don't have enough kids already!)
Anyhow, while I was actively taking part in the conversation and telling the social workers how much I wanted to be a foster mum, James (1) was on the other side of the room with a crayon in one ear and was busily working another up his nose...
He had never stuck anything anywhere in his body before, I guess he was saving it for this particular day.

It was pointed out to me by someone else - I'm surprised they called me back :o

Toni
 
They still do things when they get older.
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That is so true.

Recently my lovely little angel (fourteen going on thirty) decided she would test my ex (her mom) and I by telling us she is gay. She lives with me so I got it in person her mom got it by email.

I basically said I love you no matter what. Your happiness is what is most important to me.

Her mom said 'I want grandchildren'.

I passed :) .
 
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