1. Gideon found a sharpie.... dun, dun, dun. In all honesty this is like MY one big fear so they are nowhere to be found upstairs. However, Jake uses them to touch up negatives and what-not for his screen printing hoopla, so they're all over the place around the man-cave. The other night Jake was "watching" Gid while he was working, and that's when he discovered the sharpie. He colored all over Daddy's drum set (Ya, I know...you're thinking what I was thinking...huge, Jake freak out moment??? No, actually he just said...."Not much I can do about it." My jaw hit the floor and then I tripped over it.) then on the table that the screen printer is on, then all over the front of both the washer and dryer. How long did he have said sharpie? I'm estimating a good 5 minutes by the amount of coloring at each location. I tell you....

2. Hung from/yanked on/or otherwise mangled the thing that holds my curtains back and ripped it out of the wall....nice, right? I still have no idea when this happened, to my knowledge he was in his room playing with his newly acquired tool set the whole time. But nonetheless, one second its normal and the next it's dangling...

3. "Did his hair" with the milk leftover in his cereal bowl.

4. Climbed up onto the kitchen table, got an apple out of the fruit bowl and upon discovery was sitting in his high chair as if I had put him there....

5. Got in the pantry and took the broom and dustpan to his room to clean his toys.

6. He has figured out, I'm guessing by a lot of trial and error, how to get Cars to play all by himself. Well, almost. He'll get the tv on, the dvd player on, and is just lucky that Cars never comes out of the DVD player since he watches it so much. Then once the main menu music is playing, I push play for him. So, he's almost there.

1. Found the crayons and colored all over the coffee table and the ottoman. Luckily, it came right off.

2. Got the dish soap from under the sink and squeezed it all over the floor and into the cleaning supply bucket. (I didn't figure out it was in the bucket for a few days...grabbed the windex and got a nice messy glob on my hand.)

3. "Splashed" the milk in his cereal bowl record distances. Seriously....tiny bowl...seemingly small amount of milk...GIGANTIC mess. It was pretty hilarious though, I really have no idea how he managed to get the milk to fly so far.

4. Peed on the bathroom floor.... I had just given him a bath and he likes to play this new game where when I try to put a diaper on him after bath time he runs around naked laughing hysterically... well, he ran right into the bathroom and peed on the rug. Gross kid.

5. Ate an entire box of Hot Tamales. I don't know how he did this, I seriously thought he was going to have permanent burns on his face, seeing as even after being washed it stayed red for a good 6 hours. I worried about the possibility of horrendous diaper rash, but no problemo it seems. I can't really blame the kid for liking them since they're pretty much my fave.

6. "Gave Ashelyn her bottle." By this I mean, she was crying so he held her bottle upside down over her face and shook, which of course made her more upset. When she's really crying hard he thinks it helps to cover her up with her blanket. So when I got to her and lifted the blanket off of her face, I discovered the formula. Gid came up to me and gave me a hug, pointed at Ashelyn and smiled, like, "See Mom, I helped." He tries... :o)

...He is insane and I love him and I'm sure there have been more of these moments, but these are the most memorable and recent. I'm sure I'll be making this a regular blog feature.