A Day In the Life of Calum

Today was a typical day for Calum...

To start off the morning he was promptly sent to the time out chair for trying to scratch Armin's head off!  Next he was climbing on the couch and standing on the arm when he slipped backwards and hit the front of his head on the stone fireplace (not the first time he has hit his head on the fireplace).

It is actually hard to see the mark, but it is on his right side very close to his hairline.

To keep him from falling asleep in case he had a concussion I took him outside to see the cows and then over to our house to see how the hardwood flooring looked.  When we were at the house Calum took off on a dead run into the office and before I could catch him he managed to knock over the bi-fold closet doors that were free standing in there (Adam, the guy doing the finishing work had put them in there so he could spray the white paint on them).  He knocked over three of them, just like a gigantic game of dominos!  One is slightly scratched up, the other has a little hole from the hinge screw of the other, and the third one put two holes in the wall, thankfully the holes will require minor repair and not new drywall.

While we were waiting for Jared to come home from work I was sitting on the couch reading a magazine, Emry was cuddled up beside me also looking at the magazine and Calum was propped up on the arm right beside me playing with a little jeep and some people when he saw the phone just sitting there.  At first he was pretending his little people were talking on the phone, then he decided he wanted to talk.  Since we have had two experiences of Calum calling 911 (one incidence even brought out a police officer!) I tried to grab the phone from him, bad idea!  Emry, being the little mother hen, instantly jumped off the couch hoping to get it from Calum.  This just fuelled the fire, he took off and so did Emry right after him.  He had a head start and made it to the bathroom and just as Emry came in he threw the phone into the toilet and flushed it, not once, but twice.  I was close behind them but before I could get the phone it was hardly visible, it had gone into the hole, I really had to dig it out!  Gross!  Emry was almost in tears when she saw what he did.  The worst part is it wasn't even our phone, it was Myrna's.  This sent him to the time out chair once again.

After supper Emry and Calum were playing with play dough and colouring, Emry left the table and Calum started to rummage through her crayon box and found a pair of scissors.  At first he was cutting the play dough, which was fine, but the next time we looked over at him he was opening the scissors as wide as they would go and putting them on top of his head, cutting his hair.  Thankfully he didn't have much force using the scissors that way and only cut a few little strands.

 I think that was it, and at 7 pm, while he was drinking his milk and watching a show he actually said, "Mama, bed" and pointed to his room, I asked him if he wanted to go to bed and he nodded and said, "Uh Huh!"  Poor little man, he is still the cutest toddler I know, and I wouldn't trade him for anything!

He is not impressed that I am taking pictures of him while he is sleeping!  Though he never did wake up!!

By the way, the hard wood floors look so good, as do the cabinets, and the paint on the kitchen, livingroom and entryway walls!  Not just good, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!  All thanks to Mom Puzey and Jared!!!!