Speaking of Toddler Behavior - lets share

papagena

some of the innovative ways your LO has caused trouble, that you secretly wish you could have done yourself.

 

Mine:

- DS once peed down the heating vent.  So gross, but soooooo funny.  SOOOO hard to keep a straight face!!!!

- DS recently filled the dog's water bowl with dog food - and I mean nearly perfectly.  The thing was choc-full, right up to the top and I don't think he'd spilled much water.  I found it highly impressive, although not the most fun to clean up (wet dog food is particularly unfun to put in the compost).

Lotte134

So you mean beyond just coloring on the couch with sidewalk chalk, right?

I know there are some that DH and I were dying over, but of course I can't think of them now.  Hopefully something will come to mind in a few.

papagena

Ooo!  I almost forgot about the time that DS stuck a pea up his nose and it got stuck.  I never laughed so hard - I had tears...  (we got it out without any issues)

jwpbride

We were at breakfast with some friends on Saturday morning and Noah taught his friend Brady what a poot sounds like. Brady then repeated the sound with a mouth full of grits. Awesome.

Dobie_Mama

You know those basketball hoop arcade game things?  With the mini-basketballs and you get so long to shoot?  They have one of those in a shoe store here.  Right after L was born I had both of the girls out shoe shopping, alone.  I turned around for 2.5 seconds to look at a pair of shoes, turned back around, and S was INSIDE of the game.  Playing with the balls.

I may have blocked other incidents of orneriness from memory. 

Temp76535187505890

DS is constantly chasing the dogs around and they follow him everywhere. One day I noticed only one dog followed me into the kitchen but I didn't think much of it. I went to sit on the couch and finally noticed a poor puppy face plastered to the windows of the playroom door. Not only had DS lured her in the room and then closed her in when he left but he locked the door too. He's quite fond of locking doors and then closing them from the outside these days.

Dobie_Mama

ArmyQM:

He's quite fond of locking doors and then closing them from the outside these days.

Oh yeah.  Sabine does this, too.  I'm a pro at lock picking now.

brianna611

Maybe not that unique, but not that long ago, B threw her food away in order to get sweets.  I looked in the trash, and there was her food.  I said, "Did you throw your food away?," and with such innocense, she said, "Yes."  She just wanted her treat!

About two weeks ago, she was trying to turn one of her skirts into a dress. One of the funniest things ever!!  She got soooo mad that it wasn't working right and refused to listen when I tried to tell her it was a skirt, not a dress.

I wish I could think of more.  She tries to help me all the time.  One day not that long ago, I ran upstairs really quickly while pasta was boiling on the stove.  As soon as I was up there, I panicked, knowing B would be messing with it.  I ran back down, and sure enough, she had pushed a chair to the stove, got up and started stirring the pasta!  Thank God she wasn't hurt.  I have told her soooo many times to not touch the stove.

Corbin30

Mine are very grown up now, (15 and 9) but they did so many things that were so annoying and so funny at the same time.

When DD was 2 she woke up while the rest of us were still asleep, climbed out of bed, and went downstairs...something she had never done before. While she was downstairs, she got into the fridge, pulled out the butter, and buttered all the couch cushions. Then she flipped all the cushions over. When I got downstairs I was confused to see the cushions wrong side up, flipped them over, and freaked out. I have no idea why she felt the need to butter the cushions.

When DS was almost three, I took him out of the bathtub, turned to get the towel, and the naked toddler took off. I tripped over the bathmat and hit my head, which slowed me up just enough that he made it out the screen door. Our neighbor Bob was outside watering his lilacs, and he sees a stark naked toddler streak across his lawn, followed by mom in hot pursuit. He about laughed himself sick, and teased me about it until we moved.

papagena

Corbin30:

When DS was almost three, I took him out of the bathtub, turned to get the towel, and the naked toddler took off. I tripped over the bathmat and hit my head, which slowed me up just enough that he made it out the screen door. Our neighbor Bob was outside watering his lilacs, and he sees a stark naked toddler streak across his lawn, followed by mom in hot pursuit. He about laughed himself sick, and teased me about it until we moved.

LOL Love this - was the teasing the reason you had to move?  (j/k)

DS did turn the water heater down to vacation mode at some point.  Not sure how/when.  I'm guessing he was helping DH downstairs at some point during the clean up that recently happened.  I had a really, really cold shower that night.