(March 2007):
Last night I watched from my bedroom as Caleb looked around to see if anyone was watching him-feeling confident no one was looking, he lifted up his rug, peed on the floor, then placed the rug back down. I couldn't believe what I had just seen him do- it happened too quickly for me to have been able to prevent it. I went into his bedroom, made him clean it up then grounded him from watching television for the rest of the night. It was clear the reason he peed on the floor in the first place was because he didn't want to chance missing the movie he was watching by having to stop and go to the bathroom. That night as I was lying in bed, I thought about some of the outrageous things I had done as a child. The only difference? I had siblings (two younger sisters) to blame my antics on while Caleb is (so far) an only child. Looking back I did some things that were probably a lot worse than peeing on the carpet and trying to cover it up. Let me just apologize up front to my sisters Amanda and Erica (really I am sorry for what I am about to confess). I am guilty of the following (and much, much more):
1. Feeding my sister Amanda cat food (I would roll up pieces of cat food in her chewing gum then feed it to her). This was put to an end when my mom observed Amanda eating out of the cat bowl one day (evidentally Amanda really liked it).
2. With three girls, my mom often threw us in the bath tub together. I can remember frequently taking our plastic play bowl and filling it up with warm water and soap chips and making my sisters drink the "soup".
3. Conning my sister into eating really gross food, for example, putting creamer in her water glass at Cracker Barrel and telling her it was milk. Consequently I am also guilty of conning that same sister (Erica) into believing green olives were actually grapes.
4. Anything that was broken or lost I blamed on my sisters.
I feel a little sorry for Caleb, after all, he has no one he can blame his outrageous antics on.
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