A couple of Sunday's ago, I woke up and didn't hear a movie or a sound from Declan. So I thought maybe I had beaten him awake. I snuck into his room to see if he was still asleep and he wasn't there. I started walking down the stairs and I hear a quick slam and little feet running across the floor. When I got down the stairs, Declan was sitting on the couch looking very innocent. I said "Good Morning, Dude," to which he replied, "I didn't do it." I looked at him for a minute and then noticed that his eyes kept darting behind me. Slowly, I turned around at what did my eyes see...
Now, I know you all have seen this picture before. It has circulated over and over again with a tag line like "Do you really want kids?" I would giggle and delete it out of my mailbox thinking I would never have to deal with this situation. But on this particular Sunday...this is what my TV, Stand, and Floor looked like (along with little decorative swipes from the broom that Declan used to "sweep up" with.)
I very calmly turned around and asked Declan to go up to his bedroom. Declan took off like a shot up the stairs and threw himself onto his bed. I then started frantically cleaning up the mess before Josh woke up and saw what his "little buddy" did! After I got it all cleaned up (which wasn't an easy task) I realized I didn't take a picture of his masterpiece, but I assure you, this picture is pretty close to what I dealt with...of course it was just Declan and instead of paint he used ooey-gooey sunblock.
When Josh woke up he asked why Declan was being so quiet in his room. When I explained what had happened he just looked at me and laughed! We made sure we talked to Dec about the importance of doing what is right vs. doing what is wrong...and we also made sure we did not laugh within earshot of Declan, but Josh and I had a great laugh!
Have a good day!
Kyr
3 comments:
Nothing is worse than when you think you got a little extra quiet time because you assume your child is quietly and independently playing, only to discover that they have in fact dumped an entire bottle of something/anything all over furniture, carpet, themselves, and that 20 minutes of quiet time just cost you an hour in clean up time.
Not that we have experience with this at our house or anything :-) It's makeup at our house a lot.
Well Thank goodness it wasn't paint!!
That is pretty funny. Next time be sure to take pictures... oohh and then take pictures of making declan clean it up. :)
OMG are you kidding me! At first I thought that picture was of D man but I could not figure out how you got hard wood floors...then I realized it was a picture of someone elses kid. I have to admit that is super funny! Thanks for blogging it!
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