We all have our days but today was a very exactly what the title indicates. Hats off to Amy for not acting harshly. Time-outs were plentiful and love was without end.
The day started out pretty normal, Matthew was down-stairs waiting to eat his breakfast. Kevin keeps some Advil in his lunch bag and Matthew somehow found it and was trying to break in. Luckily Amy got to him before he could break the child-proof container. Then a little later when Amy was up changing Ryan, Matthew climbed upon our bathroom counter and found an old pre-natal vitamin and tried to eat it. Matthew said to Amy, "Mom look what I chewed." Showing the chewed pre-natal vitamin spit out all over the bathroom floor. "It didn't taste very well."
Next Matthew asked to go pee on the potty so he could get the last car. Amy sat him on the toilet but he wanted to do closed so he could have his privacy. Of course after the door closed he pulled all the toilet paper off the role. Then Amy was feeding Ryan upstairs and Matthew was supposed to be watching "Letter Factory" when Amy came down to find Matthew on the top of our Kitchen table reaching into the kitchen sink. With a goblet from our china cabinet and pumping it full of soap from the soap dispenser. Amy was baffled to see that he could get into the china cabinet but what he had done was to pull the bounce-around into the kitchen and he used it for a stool. Of course he was quickly sent to time-out and his small cars were taken away.
Later that day Matthew had been put to bed for his nap. Amy heard some noise from his room and opened the door only to find...Matthew had found Amy's sewing kit in the closet and dumped all the pins, needles, and thread all over his bed. It was a miracle that he didn't get hurt. Time-out again for Matthew. After this Matthew decided not to take nap and Amy was putting Ryan down for his nap. After securing the home and all our valuables Amy took Ryan upstairs and gave Matthew a warning not to get into trouble.
So after Amy came down from putting Ryan to sleep Matthew said, "Mom come look at the phone." So Amy followed and Matthew showed Amy the poo that he had placed on the toy-phone from his dirty diaper. Lucky for us it was just a little poo on the the toy-phone and it had not ended up anywhere else. Well that was about 4:00 and Amy had done great to enjoy the tribulation. Love the sinner, hate the sin.
Other funny things Matthew said or did this week was: On Monday Matthew came to Amy and said: "Mom-here's a booger." handing over a recently extracted booger. On Wednesday as Amy was driving the boys past a church Matthew said: "Church says I love you to Heavenly Father."
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