Queasy
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My wife did some hunting and managed to get one of those displays from McDonald's for the Happy Meal Cars toys yesterday for free complete with all the cars. She was very happy to get it because my son loved the movie and the only character we were missing was 'Mater'.
Of course, my son wanted to take all the cars out but I explained to him that the only one he could take out was Mater because we already had all the rest. We were not ever going to take the rest of the characters out of the display barring something else. All but Mater and one other were glued to the display.
So today, while my wife is taking someone out to see houses, her uncle and 10-year old nephew come over. The uncle is supposed to be installing a screen door downstairs in the 'mother-in-law' suite. This is fine because it will give my 4-year old son someone to play with.
Oh how wrong I was.
While I'm putting my 10-month old asleep, the nephew takes the hamster out of the cage without asking. Fortunately he had put her in one of those exercise balls because she is quite adept at biting, jumping, and running. She still got out though and they had to catch her. I made them put the hamster up.
So at some point either while the 10-month old was asleep or immediately after she woke up, the 10-year old got ahold of the Cars display case and ripped every. one. of. the. cars. out. Even managed to rip the display in a spot too and left the display sitting on the middle of the living room floor.
Both my son and the nephew are now sitting on the couch in the living room. No TV. No toys. No playing. No talking.
I like kids. I really do. I could strangle these two right now though.
Cliffs:
1) Wife gets Cars Happy Meal display for free
2) 10-year old nephew comes over and plays with 4-year old son.
3) While I'm taking care of 10-month old daughter and not looking, nephew rips all the cars that are glued down out of the Cars display and puts a nice rip on the front of the display.
4) Urge to kill rising. rising. rising.
My wife did some hunting and managed to get one of those displays from McDonald's for the Happy Meal Cars toys yesterday for free complete with all the cars. She was very happy to get it because my son loved the movie and the only character we were missing was 'Mater'.
Of course, my son wanted to take all the cars out but I explained to him that the only one he could take out was Mater because we already had all the rest. We were not ever going to take the rest of the characters out of the display barring something else. All but Mater and one other were glued to the display.
So today, while my wife is taking someone out to see houses, her uncle and 10-year old nephew come over. The uncle is supposed to be installing a screen door downstairs in the 'mother-in-law' suite. This is fine because it will give my 4-year old son someone to play with.
Oh how wrong I was.
While I'm putting my 10-month old asleep, the nephew takes the hamster out of the cage without asking. Fortunately he had put her in one of those exercise balls because she is quite adept at biting, jumping, and running. She still got out though and they had to catch her. I made them put the hamster up.
So at some point either while the 10-month old was asleep or immediately after she woke up, the 10-year old got ahold of the Cars display case and ripped every. one. of. the. cars. out. Even managed to rip the display in a spot too and left the display sitting on the middle of the living room floor.
Both my son and the nephew are now sitting on the couch in the living room. No TV. No toys. No playing. No talking.
I like kids. I really do. I could strangle these two right now though.
Cliffs:
1) Wife gets Cars Happy Meal display for free
2) 10-year old nephew comes over and plays with 4-year old son.
3) While I'm taking care of 10-month old daughter and not looking, nephew rips all the cars that are glued down out of the Cars display and puts a nice rip on the front of the display.
4) Urge to kill rising. rising. rising.
