Pollyanna and Stitch
Sep. 4th, 2003 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojSo yesterday I took my eyes off Justin for a couple of minutes and he took the opportunity to hit our kitchen hutch with a stick. Repeatedly. Now the side of our hutch ($500+ at IKEA) has a whole bunch of deep dents on one side. They don't match the shallower dents on the kitchen hutch doors, which Justin made about three days after we brought the thing home with a toy hammer. They do go well with the dents on the coffee table, made with Lego, but not with the scratches on the coffee table, made with a fork.
Chris and I lost it. We yelled at Justin and sent him to his room until bedtime. He had his dinner alone up there, while Chris and I commiserated about how awful it is to keep having everything destroyed by this little one-boy wrecking crew that is our youngest.
Daniel was pretty quiet throughout our listing of all the stuff we've got that Justin's wrecked - furniture, chairs, walls, floors, toys, etc etc. At one point I said, "I'm just so tired of not having anything nice. I don't even think we should paint the walls [we'd started preparing them for painting that day] because you know we're going to work and work and spend money on paint and he's just going to destroy them within days. I mean, what's the point of trying to do anything nice with our house?"
At this point, Daniel spoke up. "We have some nice things. Justin doesn't wreck everything." Chris and I didn't respond. "We have those chairs," Daniel pointed to the living room.
"You mean the plastic child-size chairs?" I asked.
"Yeah. Those are nice. And we have that chalkboard and painting easel. That's not wrecked. And we have really nice white plastic toy baskets." Chris and I couldn't help it, we started to chuckle. Daniel was just so earnest, and so eager to cheer us up, and so very very very cute.
So yes, I guess I have to admit that we do have some nice things. Of course, they're all plastic and come from Toys'R'Us, but what the heck. I guess Daniel sees the glass half-full :)
Chris and I lost it. We yelled at Justin and sent him to his room until bedtime. He had his dinner alone up there, while Chris and I commiserated about how awful it is to keep having everything destroyed by this little one-boy wrecking crew that is our youngest.
Daniel was pretty quiet throughout our listing of all the stuff we've got that Justin's wrecked - furniture, chairs, walls, floors, toys, etc etc. At one point I said, "I'm just so tired of not having anything nice. I don't even think we should paint the walls [we'd started preparing them for painting that day] because you know we're going to work and work and spend money on paint and he's just going to destroy them within days. I mean, what's the point of trying to do anything nice with our house?"
At this point, Daniel spoke up. "We have some nice things. Justin doesn't wreck everything." Chris and I didn't respond. "We have those chairs," Daniel pointed to the living room.
"You mean the plastic child-size chairs?" I asked.
"Yeah. Those are nice. And we have that chalkboard and painting easel. That's not wrecked. And we have really nice white plastic toy baskets." Chris and I couldn't help it, we started to chuckle. Daniel was just so earnest, and so eager to cheer us up, and so very very very cute.
So yes, I guess I have to admit that we do have some nice things. Of course, they're all plastic and come from Toys'R'Us, but what the heck. I guess Daniel sees the glass half-full :)
