The Deterioration of our home continues, despite all of our efforts to child-proof everything. Whenever Mom comes over she makes little comments about our house being in lock-down. Actually, the house isn't in lock-down, just the kitchen. Every cupboard door and drawer is child-proofed. And yet...
Yesterday Archer found a black permanent marker. He proceeded to mark his territory. If you've been in our house, I want you to picture this... Start at the gate above the stairs, with an area about 5" square, completely colored in, moving on to the closet doors in the hallway a large circle and then a horizontal line (as if someone was walking along holding the marker to the door). Then a pause in activity, move into our bedroom where you will see a spiral drawn about two feet in diameter on the bathroom door, and once you get into the bathroom you will see the worst of it all. On our light cupboards there are scribbles that start near the bottom and end about four feet up, as high as the little graffiti artist could reach.
Also, a pool of water on the bathroom floor, and a toilet bowl nearly-overflowing. And a pile of white powder on the floor.
And when the obvious question is asked "Who did this?" the obvious answer is "Not me!"
I've learned my lesson and now ask "Why did you do this?" Just assume he's guilty, don't ask him if he is and give him the opportunity to lie. But the answers aren't very consoling. "Because I was drawing and then I didn't have any more paper and I was chasing Amberlyn and she was running away and then I just couldn't reach that high so I just drew right here and this is a circle!"
The final touch on his artwork for the day are two black lines on his left cheek. He looks like a cat.
Yesterday Archer found a black permanent marker. He proceeded to mark his territory. If you've been in our house, I want you to picture this... Start at the gate above the stairs, with an area about 5" square, completely colored in, moving on to the closet doors in the hallway a large circle and then a horizontal line (as if someone was walking along holding the marker to the door). Then a pause in activity, move into our bedroom where you will see a spiral drawn about two feet in diameter on the bathroom door, and once you get into the bathroom you will see the worst of it all. On our light cupboards there are scribbles that start near the bottom and end about four feet up, as high as the little graffiti artist could reach.
Also, a pool of water on the bathroom floor, and a toilet bowl nearly-overflowing. And a pile of white powder on the floor.
And when the obvious question is asked "Who did this?" the obvious answer is "Not me!"I've learned my lesson and now ask "Why did you do this?" Just assume he's guilty, don't ask him if he is and give him the opportunity to lie. But the answers aren't very consoling. "Because I was drawing and then I didn't have any more paper and I was chasing Amberlyn and she was running away and then I just couldn't reach that high so I just drew right here and this is a circle!"
The final touch on his artwork for the day are two black lines on his left cheek. He looks like a cat.
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I am sick to my stomach over the damage and it's not even my house.
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