We All Love to Ignore Our Parents

After I took a plastic dagger and sheath away from the boys because it cracked and needed gluing, Ian tried to sneak behind my back-- walking on tip-toes and carrying the stool from the bathroom-- in order to retrieve the toy from the counter; even though he knew I was staring at him, he ignored me and set the stool up and climbed up so he could reach -- it was as if he believed that if he was quiet and didn't acknowledge that I was watching him, then I wouldn't stop him (then I put the broken weapon on top of the refrigerator and he moved the stool over to there, climbed up, and pathetically waved his arms-- a good four feet short of his target).
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3 comments:

  1. celineMarch 25, 2008 at 9:41 AM

    this nearly brought me to tears...Calvin does stuff like this all the time. He has recently taken to using his latent car seat as a step stool since we have moved his step stools out of reach.

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  2. robMarch 25, 2008 at 12:33 PM

    yeah, been there. you're just mean, dave.

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  3. DaveMarch 25, 2008 at 6:01 PM

    i AM getting mean-- and i can hear catherine yelling at ian as i type this-- he is DEFIANT-- but what is a "latent car seat"? something that's a car seat under the surface? got to go-- everyone is getting yelled at in the kitchen . . . a food spitting incident.

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