Destructo Boy!

Tyler is in full-fledged mischief mode. A story from yesterday to illustrate:

Yesterday morning, he tore up three pop-up books. I'm becoming quite the book repair specialist.

Later, I gave him his lunch of pizza bites and peas in his high chair, which he threw most of on the ground (not unusual). I tried to bribe Parker into picking up the pieces and throwing them away, to which Parker replied, "But Mom, I want to vacuum them up." This is usually something we let him do with our dust-buster, but I explained to him that the pieces were too big.

Whilst finishing my own lunch, Parker thought it would be a great idea to squish all of the peas on the ground. Why? "So they would be small enough to vacuum!" was his reply. After I gave in to cleaning up the mess, I noticed Tyler had escaped.

I found him in my bathroom, unrolling the toilet paper off the roll, for the third time that day. Picked him up, set him outside the door, cleaned up the t.p., and then came out to find that he had emptied all of the kleenex's from the box next to our bed. Cleaned THAT up, to look up and see him tearing apart our family picture album! AAAAHH! Finally stuck him in his crib until I could recover the house from the mini-tornado that is my son.

As if my seemingly innocent boy knows what he is up to, he often closes doors behind him when he enters a room or closet. I think he is taking after his big brother, as sometimes we have found that he is "doing his business." I didn't think they understood privacy at this age! But mostly I think he hides behind the closed doors so as not to disclose his secret identity - Destructo Boy!