Hey, I just had an idea - I should make a sign for the infractions of my son and his best friend I told you about! Make them stand at the end of the driveway with signs. One could hold one saying
"HI! We're 4 & 5 years old and we like to break things! We want to be sent to our rooms forever!"
while the other's lists the destruction -
"This month we've
1. bashed a wiffle ball bat to death
2. gotten countless toys stuck up in trees
3. broken 3 wooden train track pieces
4. tried to break a ceiling fan with projectile objects
5. poked 3 large holes in 2 window screens
6. displaced every bit of sand from sandbox into yard
7. thrown dozens of crabapples onto the roof (and probably into the gutters), into the yard, on the porch, into the garage
8. scattered mulch all over every cement surface available
9. peed in the cat's litter box
10. practiced the fine art of using mild bathroom words inappropriately (and finding it hilarious while no one else does)."
:)
Actually I'd better go check on them - they've been left unattended in the back yard for all of ten minutes. I expect to hear breaking glass at any moment.
LOL!
What characters! Sounds like they might benefit from the fine art of learning how to pick up mulch and sand and crabapples since they seem to have mastered the spread of it! I would like to see the picture of those signs though!
After I read this, I remember what I did when my oldest son started the potty mouth thing with one of his younger sisters. Nothing I did to him worked until I finally did what I thought I would never do - wash out a mouth with soap. Picking the drama queen that he was (still is to some extent), I finally rubbed that soap bar on his tongue a little bit. I never had to do it to my daugher because he exaggerated so much about how awful it was! I never really had a problem with either of them after that. ;)
On the back of the signs, maybe the boys will write - "Mommy keeps telling God that when she wanted Him to make her more like Him --patient, tolerant and perservering, she didn't want Him to do it through us!
Just remember. "This too shall pass". Now repeat that over and over and over!