It is Only Money

It would be near impossible to total the cost of things that this little boy destroyed. He didn't destroy to be destructive he was always being creative or being strong! One of the first of these was when he had been outside with his older brothers for a few minutes. He came running in the house and wanted me to come see how strong he was. We went outside and with a big smile he showed me the bricks on the windowsill that were now all broken. He had used a hammer and was just exploring his own strength.

We had just replaced the carpeting in our upstairs and without a great deal of thought, chose a light taupe carpet. Within just a couple weeks, Todd found the red food coloring (which of course was on the very top shelf of the kitchen) and opened it. Then he proceeded to walk down the hall way dripping red food coloring all the way. Trying hard to not be upset, I started cleaning. It was then that Todd climbed onto the kitchen counter and got in the Nesquik chocolate powder and got himself covered himself head to toe and then walked all over the house leaving chocolate footprints everywhere. Again, urging myself to keep call and needing to get back to cleaning up the red dye, I made another mistake and only pushed the quik further onto the counter. Sure enough right after cleaning the carpet and the chocolate footprints I got to clean up the second set of footprints all over the house.

So while we are talking about the carpet I'll add another episode with it right here. Todd was about 2 1/2 and came into tell me that he had made a pretty picture and to come look. This pretty picture was drawn with blue permanent marker and was about five feet in diameter with a face with eyes and a smile right in the middle of the living room carpet!

He was always creative in finding solutions. If he saw a problem (usually a problem only he saw) he came up with a solution. There was a spider crawling on a window and he couldn't reach to get it so he grabbed a baseball bat! He was pretty excited when he killed the spider! The only problem with his solution was now the window was very broken!