Yesterday my 3 year old was washing her toy dishes in the bathroom sink while I was busy in the living room. Next thing I know she runs down the hall toward my bedroom. I hollared at her to turn the water off in the bathroom if she was done "washing dishes. So she ran back into the bathroom. I assumed that meant she was not done. A minute or two later the water went off and in walks Chicklet proud as can be with a SOAKING WET stuffed frog. She announces to me that the frog has had his bath. She is wet head to toe and after getting her cleaned up and wringing out the poor frog (which is not supposed to get wet because it has a box inside that ribbits when you squeeze it), I find that the bathroom is a sudsy lake, there's a trail of water down the hall, a soaking wet puddle of carpet in the doorway from the living room to the hall, and wet feet prints in the living room. I sopped it up with towels and put the frog in the dryer on fluff. Then, from where I do not know and don't think I want to, she brings me the OTHER frog and it is sopping wet too. Fun times.
When she was a baby she would take her diaper off herself if she pooped. Oh man. Bad news! I had to duct tape it on for a while there because I would hear her wake up from nap and by the time I got in there she would have already taken off the poo diaper, flung it onto my carpeted floor, and sat and leaned and scooted and... you get the picture.
When we moved a year ago we put new miniblinds on the windows because there were none. Chicklet shredded them during naptime one afternoon. I didn't know she could reach them from the crib let alone destroy them in less than an hour... Now I know.
Then there was the time she shredded a box of kleenex.
I could go on and on. This child was born destructive.
Bug however has never destroyed anything that I can think of. Of course he's only 13 months old but by his age Chicklet was proficient at it so I hope this means he's just not naturally destructive. *sigh*
