How was your day?
It’s the same exchange that parents have all over the world, when it’s dark and the kids are asleep.
Ours takes place in the wee small hours of the night, morning really, when he comes home from work. Together, we put the nocturnal child back into his bed, again, tuck him in and put the door to, ajar.
“Well at least he’s really cheerful.”
“I’m glad someone is.”
“So how did it go?”
“He pulled down the shower curtain. I nearly brained myself trying to get it back up on the wall.”
“You should have left it. It helps if you’re taller.”
“Couldn’t. He was trampling all over it to get to the top shelf.”
“Ah the soap collection.”
“Indeed. He’s going to break his neck clambouring up that wall. He uses the soap dish as a foot hold.”
“Well that’s a positive thing.”
“Is it? Which bit? The climbing or the collection.”
“Er…..well…..both. I admit I wouldn’t have expected a soap fetish from the filthiest child on the planet but that’s all to the good surely?”
“I’ll remind you of that the next time you want to wash your hands.”
“Hmm……..maybe it’s a cunning plan to foil the hand washing campaign?”
“?”
“Well……..?”
“He’s not that devious.”
“Are you sure? I certainly wouldn’t bank on it.”
“So…..if he’s graduated to ‘devious’ do we chastise or celebrate?”
“Passed with flying colours!”
Stumble it!
June 8th, 2008 at 4:35 am
As I’ve complained before “yeah, another milestone (devious, plotting)… dang now I have to discipline it”
June 8th, 2008 at 5:38 am
ROFL…sounds like our conversations, too! And as for the question of deviousness? Don’t put it past him! From all I’ve read here, he’s awfully smart and methodical; an anti-washing campaign *could* be under way. Or it could be that he likes the smell and feel of the soaps??
Good luck on the shower curtain campaign! LOL
June 8th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Devious has such a negative connotation sometimes, so maybe just think of it as cunning?
I recently had a similar adventure with the living room curtains. I haven’t bothered to rehang them because I have yet to figure a foolpoof, Gus-proof way to keep them up there when he yanks the screws and anchors clean out of the wall. I can’t call mine cunning in that case, though - just exploring his inner Tarzan
Lovely bathroom, by the way!
June 8th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Good point. I should probably edit out ‘devious’ and replace it with that in mind, but I’ll leave it ‘as is’ so that other people can hopefully avoid my error.
Cheers
June 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Am I the only one that gets a bit of vertigo looking at that checkerboard?
We go thru a lot of soap around here. And when we’re in any bathroom out in public, I am always called over to share in the smell of yet another new soap.
Joe
June 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
When we graduate to such heights (I’m betting he’s definately that devious, um, cunning) we celebrate first. Then we sigh and get on to the task of figuring out why and how we stop it.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
There’s something to be said when bratty behaviour causes us great joy. Perhaps the normalcy of such stinky stuff becomes it’s own reward
June 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
There’s something to be said when bratty behaviour causes us great joy. Perhaps the normalcy of such stinky stuff becomes it’s own reward.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I love that tub and tile!