I know that all kids are destructive. But sometimes I'm just positive that Jake is MORE destructive.
Let me tell you about the things he has done in just the last week.
-- He spilled red Gatorade AND red marinara sauce on my brand-new area rug in the living room (which was purchased to cover years of apple juice and other food stains.) The Gatorade I bought on the condition he would keep it in a sippy cup. Only half fit. When that was empty, he got the Gatorade bottle from the fridge and brought it into the living room. And the marinara sauce was on my mom's watch.
-- My mom bought Jake a bunch of snacks on Sunday, presumably for school lunches. When he got up before me on Monday (holiday! woot!) he decided to empty each of the individual packets from FOUR BOXES of fruit snacks into a big zip-lock bag. This wouldn't have been so bad, had he not added a few snack-sized packs of DORITOS in with them. I made him pick all the Doritos (and resulting Dorito dust) out of the fruit snacks and told him no more fruit snacks will be purchased until all the Dorito-laced ones are eaten.
-- When Jake's friend was over on Monday, they for some reason decided to take every blanket in the house and cover his bedroom floor with them. (I have a LOT of extra blankets laying around.) A two-foot blanket drift now blocks his room's door. I had laid out some clothes that needed put away on his bed, and he rounded them all up and shoved them onto the floor of his small closet, then shoved the door shut.
Oh, and the best one?
-- I have been painting most of the walls in my house, slowly but surely this summer. About an hour after I declared the downstairs half-bath finished and put all the stuff back in it, Jake went in to use the bathroom. Later that night I discovered a 2 inch long gaping hole in the painted wall. When I asked him what happened, he said "There was a bump and it was bothering me, so I picked it off."
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