Bright Ideas

The last few weeks Luke has had a couple “bright ideas”.  It seems like he is always looking for new places to stash his toys.  I’ve told you how in the past he put them in the warming drawer under the stove and in the bathtub.  Well the last few weeks he has tried putting them on top of the stove, which doesn’t work out so well when mommy is trying to cook.  He has also tried putting some in the kitchen sink, along with the dirty dishes.  That leads me to a whole other story….which I promise to tell you later.

There are two places he has been stashing his toys consistently lately.  One is on top of the TV stand, in front of the TV.  This is a new thing because we had to replace our TV.  The old TV was HD and was NOT a flat panel…so it was VERY big.  When we first got it, it took three “strapping lads” to carry it inside and set it up.  So that TV took up pretty much all the TV stand.  When it broke we bought another HD, this time a flat screen.  So there is now about 6 inches or so of free space in front of the TV on the TV stand.

Luke likes to pile his toys up on that free space.  When he first started this, I was afraid he would throw his toys at the TV.  But instead he’ll actually pile books, blocks, plastic food, or whatever else he can find….even his juice cup.  What Luke finds so funny when he does this is when he puts things up there and they don’t stay, usually because of the way the books are balancing on top of some odd shaped block or something.  So when the book or toy falls and doesn’t stay where he put them, Luke laughs.  It is pretty good entertainment, until the books or toys fall back and hit him in the head.  Then Luke doesn’t find it so funny anymore.  Even so, that doesn’t stop him from trying again after a few minutes of crying.

The other place he tried stashing toys, I found more funny than Luke.  He didn’t laugh at all, but it kept cracking me up when he first did it.  Luke was sitting facing me, with his back to the wall and the heat/air register was directly behind him.  Luke took all his smaller toys; blocks, shapes, Lego’s, and plastic foods, and put them in a big old pile behind him.  The purpose?  I think it was to cover up the register.  I wonder if Luke was getting too warm sitting there or what.  He only did this for one day, and I haven’t seen him do it since. 

When he did this I laughed and just to see what he would do, I went over and took all the toys off the register.  What did he do?  He smiled at me and then proceeded to put all those toys right back on the register.  After all that was where they belonged, right?  It was a funny sight.