The Hoarder

Have you ever watched "Hoarders?" There is one episode where a 7-year-old boy was becoming a hoarder. Now I'm afraid my Little Stephanie may become one too.

She's already got her "treasures." Which for some reason sometimes includes little pieces of paper (at least until I vacuum them up.) And she's got her empty plastic soda bottles on the top shelf of her closet.

Now she's wanting me to find her red snowflake and pink bear pajamas. I've advised her they are too small and she can't wear them anymore but she keeps bringing them up and she wants to "grow smaller" so she can still have them.

Scarface Stephanie

Tuesday night, Stephanie was running down the dark hallway and she tripped and smashed her head into the corner of our doorway.

She came screaming and crying back into the living room and holding her hands up to her face which was dripping with blood.

She had hit her forehead on the edge of the corner and split the skin open. We got her calmed down and cleaned up and the blood stopped and it wasn't bad enough to need stitches but we did put a butterfly bandage and another bandage on it and then held some ice to her head for as long as she would let us.

We were afraid it would get really swollen but the swelling was gone by morning so we must have done it right.

But before she went to bed that night, she was very concerned that she might have gotten blood all over the carpet. Poor baby! So I had to advise her we weren't worried about the carpet and were just glad she was okay.

I'll try and take a picture of the scar after she lets me take the bandages off. For obvious reasons, we have no pictures of the blood carnage!

Just in case you needed a Stephanie fix...

It's Scary how Their Minds Work

S: "Sundance (the cat) is clean because he licks himself."

{slight pause}

S: "I could lick myself."

Mommy: "Please. Don't."

Someone

Daddy just caught Someone coloring on the wall.

Someone colored all over the wall.

Then Someone handed the crayon to her little brother and tried to pass the blame off on him.

Someone is now standing in the corner.


(I believe Someone is trying to get her little brother ready for his lifetime of servitude as her Henchman. That's what Henchmen are for, you know - doing heavy lifting and taking the blame when you get caught.)

Artwork Wednesday #8

'Hello Kitty' with a heart necklace

(Mommy drew the kitty's face and bow)

December 2, 2009 - 4.25 years old

Treasures

I was putting clothes away the other day and I looked up at the shelf in Stephanie's closet and found these. . .

Those are empty soda bottles. This little obsession started at Hayden's football games when I would give her an empty bottle and let her add her little treasures to it. You know - things like flowers and leaves and whatever else the kid found on the ground.

Last I knew, there were only 2 bottles up there. And I warned her not to be climbing the shelves to get to that top shelf because if she pulls it out of the wall, I will be very, very, very, very annoyed.

There are now 8 bottles. I have no idea where the others came from. I'm guessing she dug them out of the trash.

Here is the underwear/sock drawer. Obviously, this is where tiny treasures go so they don't get lost.

A closer look. . .

What? You don't save strings from your raggedy duck blankie?!?! Or a tiny little ornament thing you found on the floor of some store somewhere underneath the display shelves? Or a suncatcher cat? Or tiny little beads? Or dryer sheets?

Well.

You seriously need to re-examine your priorities!