Problem Solving Mischief

My youngest loves to destroy things and put them back together according to how he sees fit.  He loves to play with appliances and tech gadgets, not toys.  Give him a food processor, blender, router, electrical transformer or a vacuum and he is in his element!  My husband made the suggestion to buy more child proofing gear for the house in an effort to tame this baby hurricane (Category 4), I laughed.  I laughed because, I could envision my son actually enjoying breaking the locks to learn how to get into drawers!  He would revel in this new game.  All of this makes me smile in hindsight, but when I fall victim to this adorable hurricane sharpening his engineering skills, I am ready to pull my hair out.

Instead of pulling out my hair (I do like my hair), I scream into pillows to release the pent up stress and eat ice cream for dinner, after they are fast asleep, so I don’t have to share any.  Well today my pillows were being laundered and bedtime was nowhere in sight, hence neither was my ice cream dinner (sigh).  Just when I thought I was going to literally lose my mind over the human chaos that is my adorable 16 month old angel, he decided to prove to me that his mischievous, boisterous adventures were not all in vain.DSC00681

My precious garden hose appeared to be broken with a disconnected nozzle.  Mr. Mischief had been watching me from afar inside his toy car, for the past couple of days attempt to reconnect and fix it.  I just could not figure out how to rectify this problem and thought for sure I would have to just buy another one or call in the assistance of my landlord.  That is, until my tiny,” Go-Go-Gadget” son walked in the house from playing outside and handed me the nozzle, disassembled with a proud smile.  This little boy who is barely a toddler figured out what I couldn’t!  He figured out how this thing worked by “destroying” it and gave it to his Mother, who obviously needed help.

So, gone are the days I try to change my son’s interests in destroying EVERYTHING around the house.  Gone are the days when I try to talk him into playing with an actual, primary colored toy instead of my blender tamper.  Instead, I will just continue screaming in my pillow when extremely frustrated and smile when I remember that at least I have a free maintenance man.  🙂

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This is me being me so that you will be you. I'm a woman who smiles till my cheeks ache, crochets until my fingers twitch, hugs the hell out of my Hubby and children and in between these things I make the time to read, cook, write and attempt to inspire others to do something to improve their overall health.