I have three children - a daughter 21, a son 20 and another son 12. I am in the midst of round three of puberty (his voice is changing and he spends countless hours in front of the mirror willing his mustache to grow - when he can sprout something thicker than the women in the family then he can brag) and two college students muddling through the beginning of adulthood and it's various and not-so-fun dilemmas.
I thought I would start my first post wondering about crazy stunts kids pull. A messageboard friend lamented just a few days ago about her toddler dashing out of sight only to be found several frantic moments later gleefully sitting in the bathtub.
Ah yes, the climbing years! I remember them so fondly. Fortunately I had only a few climbing episodes with my kids. I've heard horror stories of little ones sitting on garages, stranded in trees and hiding in kitchen cabinets. My middle child had a thing for the bathroom sink.
So here is child #2 after climbing up on the toilet and into the sink on two different occasions in two different houses...
So what are your climbing stories? What odd and unsuspecting places have you found your children?
When my son was young, he's 40 this year, he loved spider man. Like spider man, he could climb walls. I found him more than once in the hall trying to span the three foot gap between walls. First it was a crablike skuttle several inches off the floor only to end in a sprawled crying heap. This went on for several years. When he was about seven, I walked down the hall to only find my daughters giggling looking up at the ceiling. There was spiderman cape and all about a foot off the ceiling feet and arms braced firmly against opposit walls. He was crying. He forgot the exit stratagy.
ReplyDeleteYou DID take pictures? Right??? I mean those are solid gold. Post them on facebook and make him shudder like a teenager because mom is playing with technology again. I love doing that to my kids. They get mucho sympathy from classmates.
ReplyDeleteI have found mine in the sink as well. Sadly no pictures. ;(
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