Last Saturday was my first day home alone with both kids. Dan had to drive up to the meat processor to pick up pork and deliver it to St. Louis - he was gone from 8am-7pm. The morning started out pretty well and I was doing an okay job juggling Samuel and Evie. However, after lunch you could tell Samuel was getting a little tired of sharing me with Evie and started looking for the wrong kind of attention. He was opening cabinets, pulling books off the bookshelf, etc. He finally settled down a little so I went down the hall for a minute to do something while he was playing in the kitchen area. When I came back into the room, he was holding a spent coffee filter that he dug out of the trash can. This is what a 15-month old looks like when he gets his hands on a wet coffee filter...
It took all I had not to start laughing. Of course, that was before I saw the rest of what he did. After getting him cleaned up, I followed the coffee ground trail from the kitchen, through the breakfast room and into the family room. I got that all vacuumed up before seeing the final present he left for me...
Fortunately, the coffee grounds were a couple of hours old and dried out a little bit, so the couch and the See 'n Say vacuumed up pretty easily. Needless to say, the kitchen trash can is now behind a cabinet with child proof latches!
