365 Days of Bliss – I should have known
I should have known…when all is quiet with a four year old boy…mischief is being made.
So on this particular day…I was sitting with my two eldest children as they did their homework. It was like a dream run, there were no complaints about the homework, the magpies were on our deck singing to us, the weather was beautiful, I had a nice cold iced coffee and then Mr 4 year old Daniel appeared from outside.
“Mummy’ he said, “Come and see the play area…I’s been working”.
Now we were on a roll with the homework so I said, “Okay Dan, as soon as we have finished the homework”
That he didn’t like. He crossed his arms AND eyes, huffed and yelled at me. “Come and look at the playground”. Not once but over and over…like he was stuck on repeat. Eventually I thought…okay I’ll go and have a look just to hush him so that we can get back to the homework, the magpies and the iced coffee.
Dan was sooooooo excited…he raced down the stairs to present his work…
as I looked down…I didn’t know whether to be mad or crack up laughing…
His working bee had consisted of wrapping our backyard in yellow caution tape. And I mean wrap it around EVERYTHING. The swingset, the deck poles, the wheel barrow, the bikes. Here I was thinking that he was being so good and what perfect children I had when he was downstairs pranking our backyard. I should have known!
Then son Cameron appeared. He was the owner of the said yellow caution tape and absolutely devastated. Sobbing devastated. This was the tape that he was “going to use when he built a river in our backyard and now he wouldn’t be able to build the river because he had no tape to stop people falling into it.” Aaaaah…the tragedy.
And so the moral of the story…four year old boys and caution tape…not such a good mix 🙂
So share your stories…what antics have your youngins got up to?
Fee x
PS. In the first photo…it looks like he has taped himself to the swingset…but no…he is just in amongst it all. If he had have taped himself to the swing…that would be a video moment for funniest home videos 🙂
Ashley said...
on August 19th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Hilarious. I always get nervous when it is quiet too long in my house.
Flergs said...
on August 20th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
haha oh no Fee! What a classic. Imagine what the neighbours would think has happened when they peeked over the back fence o_O My Kaylee has too many stories to mention, they seem funny now when I look back but at the time they made me cry. Poop all over the living room carpet, cutting all her hair off, a whole packet of cocoa crushed into the floor, dropping a friends mobile phone into the mop bucket :/
Megs xxx.
Valgal said...
on August 21st, 2011 at 8:11 am
Oh no! You’re going to have drowning victims too! One of my alltime favorite stories is when my then four-year-old and her neighbor friends got into a bag of chalk dust and COATED themselves and the front porch. It was caked in their hair and everything. Of course I have pics of it 😉
Mummy said...
on August 23rd, 2011 at 8:06 am
I love it. I can just picture him out there working while you were all inside. I wonder what was going through his mind. xx