Wednesday, February 27, 2008

WHEN????

I think it is time for Collin to visit his Papa again in Holbrook. My patience is wearing thin. I almost to the point where the kid has to be by my side every minute so he doesn't do anything naughty or he needs to be locked up. I go into the bathroom today and in the 1 minute of peeing as quickly as possible he sneaks under the kitchen sink and fills the cupboard up this febreeze. I finally moved every air freshner and cleaner and anything else he might destroy to a locked pantry.

Later tonite Joe comes in the office where I am working and taking a break from the day and leads me into the bedroom to find this:




My wonderfully intelligent demon child took my trumpet apart. Also emptied half a bottle of valve oil all over the horn (it is very well lubed now) and all over the carpet. Mind you that is several $1000 horn and most of my favorite memories involve my trumpet. When do I get to trust this child? I can't even leave him alone with Quintin yet because he is way too rough. If I can't trust him now, what is he going to be like when he is a teenager? I don't see how my parents did this. (hopefully I wasn't taking everything apart left and right though)

2 comments:

leaner said...

Maybe he will get this all out now, and then when he is a teenager he will be a lovely soul... you can hope, right? Ask my mom about "rambunctious boys" I believe she had two of them. And some of the stories I have heard about your oldest bro...

He will get better, chant that over and over. He. Will. Get. Better.

It will happen eventually (just like some day- he will be fully potty trained.)

I think we need a GNO... we can do that in CG, right?

lvh said...

He will get better - maybe not as soon as you'd like but it will happen. Unfortunately for me, it didn't happen until the kid turned 27 :-( by the time he turned into a person we really wanted to be around, he was too far away to spend much time with. The only plus side of living in CO was that he was there at the same time so we got to spend lots of time together. No matter what, you just love your kids. Hang in there - you are not alone.