Apr 20 2009
Call the Priest, We Need an Exorcism
Recently, my two-year-old’s toys have been acting up. They have been downright evil and destructive. During the past few weeks, Sam has told us that some of his toys have thrown cushions off the couch, dumped puzzle pieces on the floor, scattered Lego blocks from one end of the house to the other, and even let the bunny out of it’s cage.
I’m not really sure how to go about disciplining plastic objects. They can completely destroy the house in a matter of minutes. This leads me to believe that they would not respond well to a time out. I don’t really know about a reward system either. What would motivate a plastic Army guy or a matchbox car? Goldfish crackers? Puppy stickers? Doesn’t quite seem right. I think we need some divine intervention. I can’t handle this on my own.
The last time the toys staged a protest against cleanliness and order, I told Sam that if they continued doing this I would just have to get rid of the one’s responsible.
Well, the next time I entered Sam’s room to discover every puzzle dumped on the floor and little cars and Legos scattered everywhere, I questioned him about how this happened again. His reply this time was “Gramps did it.” He is now blaming his grandfather, who was not in the house on the day in question. I guess he figures that I won’t get rid of Gramps if he makes a mess around the house. I’m not so sure, though. If I find out that Gramps really is the one dumping puzzle pieces everywhere - he’s outta here!! Until then, call the priest because we need to perform an exorcism on the toys.
Aw, poor Gramps!
You’ve got to admit, your little one has a good imagination. Hopefully those toys will start behaving themselves and keep from getting Sam in trouble. The nerve of some toys! My youngest blames things on her sister (when she’s at school) or her Daddy. She’s even gone so far as to tell me that I made the mess. Uh-huh, sure, I’ll buy that one!
So, funny. I’m sure he’ll start blaming the baby once he figures out that I’m not buying into the Gramps story or maybe the dogs did it or the bunny. Who knows. All we know for sure is that Sam did not do it!
LOL how cute… my daughter always blamed a tiger they are so cute at that age….
shannonf - Those darn tigers are trouble-makers, too. The nerve they have!
One of my daughters stood in front of me and bit herself… then pointed at her sister and said “she bit me.” We’ve really been working on “fibbing” in our house lately… especially after my girls told me “the giant” made a mess in our play room. Darn giant, maybe he should come back and clean up!
They never come back and clean up the mess. I can’t figure it out!
I think gramps really did mess up the room. He is a real trouble maker.
Ha! I can totally relate to this. My 3-year-old son is blaming everything on his baby brother these days or a “stranger” who pops in and out of our house constantly.
Sam came up with dinosaurs now. I’ll have to write about this next. Apparently we have dinosaurs that live around our house and they are now coming into our house and destroying his room. Wouldn’t I notice a dinosaur just kinda walking around?