Brain Damage!!

I know I JUST blogged. But some things must be posted now! Haha

If I had posted all this yesterday, I would have been in a furious mood. But it's kinda funny now. And I need to post it. For posterity.

Let me start by asking if you've heard of the "Mother's Curse". This is when your mother says something like "Someday, you'll have kids and I hope you have one just like you so you know what it's like!!" Bill Cosby says it well here. Start at 8:36.

I was given the Mother's Curse. Many times. I was that kid.

This curse works. And I got that kid as my first kid. My dear, sweet Anthony.

*sigh*

I don't even know where to start. He CAN be so nice and sweet and thoughtful and smart. But it seems like he LIKES doing rotten things just to see how much trouble he'll be in!


Today is Thursday. On Tuesday, I was putting Christmas letters together. I hear something being unzipped in the living room. I look up to see Anthony trying to get into daddy's BRAND NEW Lake Placid Blue Fender Startocaster. His baby.

I told Anthony he's not allowed to touch it, to get away, etc. I go back to stuffing letters and the next thing I hear is the strum of an electric guitar. GAH!
So I run over and put the guitar away, collect the 24 picks scattered about the room and put it in my room.

When I come out, Anthony has completely emptied the salt and pepper shakers (which I JUST refilled) all over the table.

Really?!?!

So I send him to his room.

It takes me about a minutes to realize I want him in there a long time, possibly to take a nap, so I go back in to let him out to go potty first. I open his door and he is standing on his bed, PEEING in his cup!! GROSSSSSS!!!

Needless to say he spent a long time in his room and did end up taking a nap. That was a good call on his part because it was not safe for him to be out of his room. :)

So, that was less than 10 minutes worth of Tuesday. Can I sigh again?

*sigh*

Wednesday...
Here was Anthony's To-Do list which he unwaveringly completed:

-Knock Christmas tree over (make sure the water spills on the carpet)
-Take Jimmy's pants off
-break glass ornament in my room
-paint walls with brown acrylic paint
-dribble blobs of paint on carpet, too.
-paint mama's sewing machine box if there's time

Yes, I took pictures before I cleaned it up. Adam was like, "You're taking PICTURES?" I said, "Yes, someday we'll think this is funny. And we'll need to show him what he used to do as a 3 year old."

Luckily, we just got an awesome ShopVac at Black Friday so the tree water and water-based paint is all cleaned up out the carpet. The sewing machine paint was still wet so I could wipe that up but unfortunately, the paint on the walls is there for good.

I can't wait to find out what today holds in store! *sob*

Here is Bill Cosby's bit on Brain Damage. I've been watching this since I was a kid but it has never hit so close to home before! Enjoy.


:D *siiiiigh*