Playing naughty; The good, the bad, and the ugly

"Mama, wanna watch naughty". Huh? "Wanna watch NAUGHTY!!" Naughty is the word of the month. It is used to describe anything that involves fighting with light sabers, hitting, kicking, pushing or knocking things over, but when you are an almost fwee year old little boy, naughty is also soooo much fun.Watch naughty is Kyle-speak for Star Wars movies. Play naughty with pillows indicates not only that you are about to be smacked across the knees or back with a pillow, but that you are expected to reciprocate. In fact, the harder you send Kyle flying, the longer he'll want to play.

 We've played naughty with pillows so much lately that he has even perfected his game face:

The Good: Kyle knows that Emily is too little to play naughty, and he respects that...most of the time. 

The Bad: There is the infrequent attempt at WWF-style wrestling, which surprisingly Emmie enjoys on occasion

The ugly: Regrettably there is a down side to the recent over-use of the term "naughty" in our house, as one member of this family now has the belief that being naughty has an element of fun to it.

Many of you may remember this unfortunate incident involving a tub of super strength diaper rash cream. Once in a life time incident, or recurring nightmare? If you guessed the latter then you win the prize. In the wee hours of Sunday morning I peeked into Kyle's room to check on him on my way to feed Emily. Apparently  he had gone into her room in the middle of the night, retrieved the tub of super-duper-strength butt cream, and returned to his room for a little late night art project. The damage appeared to be minor, a few small spots on the carpet and some smeared on a box of diapers. I took the tub of triple paste and put it in the bathroom, and before I left for work that morning I pulled up directions online for how to remove zinc oxide from carpet, leaving the supplies on the counter so Travis could clean up later. Fast forward to noonish when I arrived back home to find that those few, small spots had some how exponentially expanded to include large areas of carpet in Kyle's bedroom.

I will apologize to those of you who were unable to find any Arm & Hammer baking soda or Dawn dish soap on the store shelves this week, as I did have to use an alarming amount of each of them to remove all of the water-proof butt ointment from the carpet. I am pleased to say that Ky's carpet looks almost like new, and all butt cream is now kept out of reach of little hands. Some day this will be funny. Some day.