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brie k
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 Posted: 04/09/04 - 10:52 Post subject: He lives only because he's cute...
we'd have shipped him off by now if he wasn't so cute & sweet.
Jacob took his daddy's trackball out of his mouse and put it in the Klipsch subwoofer. It's funny too, because it must've taken quite a bit of effort. The tube of the subwoofer curves up, so he had to use something to push it up and through. He could not have turned it over as we would have noticed. We're lucky because 1) he was home today from preschool, and 2) he remembered what he'd done with it. John hasn't been on his computer in 2 weeks, so we have no idea when this happened.
Took the subwoofer apart and got the ball, the speakers all work, and all is right with the world again.
In the short time he's been alive, he's ruined a few mice, game controllers, remote controls, vcrs and dvd players. He's spilled oil on my carpet, and done a hundred other little things to drive his parents absolutely to the brink... I love him, but a less cute and cuddly child we'd have gotten rid of a long time ago. 
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gretriever
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Posted: 04/09/04 - 11:03 Post subject:
We can relate. When our son was three, I think, he was going through the kitchen on his trike, when he decided to stop and feed the parking meter. So he took a penny (at the least) and put it in the slots at the top of the door of the dishwasher, and short-circuited the whole thing.
P.S. - Don't let your son read the above! 
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andydp
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Posted: 04/09/04 - 13:16 Post subject:
Just one more reason why I advise each new parent to not teach the kids to walk...
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 04/09/04 - 13:29 Post subject:
It's just lucky for most parents that they only get one of those kind... the curious, inventive, super-smart take-it-apart-and-see-how-it-works kind... or the human race would have died out long ago!
I've got one, my sister-in-law's got one, my parents had one, everyone I know's got one that should, by rights, be sleeping in the mower shed.
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airehead
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Posted: 04/09/04 - 13:36 Post subject:
| Laurie Ellen wrote: | It's just lucky for most parents that they only get one of those kind... the curious, inventive, super-smart take-it-apart-and-see-how-it-works kind... or the human race would have died out long ago!
I've got one, my sister-in-law's got one, my parents had one, everyone I know's got one that should, by rights, be sleeping in the mower shed. |
My sister has one (out of four kids). She complains about him the most. He is my favorite. Has such a spark of personality even at three that the others just never quite had. He is a very intelligent child.
I stopped at one. I don't have that "into everything" type. I am very fortunate. I know it would be a challenge--and I'm not quite sure I'm up to it!
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Maddies Wench
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Location: Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go.
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Posted: 04/09/04 - 14:27 Post subject:
My son once lubed and oiled and gassed everything in my neighbors garage.
It took a long time to clean everything out of everything and refill all the oil receptacles because we had no idea what fluid he had put in what machine.
My EX was watching him that day.
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