Griffin, the Gremlin Child

Griffin has always had a mischievous side, but just before his second birthday he decided to go for the naughtiness high score. He was getting into everything! It felt like if you turned your back for even a minute, he'd go wreak havoc, and while you were cleaning up one mess, he'd go make another. It was during this period I decided he would be starting preschool in the fall because he was making me CRAZY!! Here is a sampling of his crimes. During this phase he was also obsessed with stealing toilet brushes, unrolling and flushing toilet paper rolls, eating chapsticks and stealing whatever food he could find. Good thing he is so cute!!

Lower cupboards were locked, but little buddy figured out how to drag stools so now upper cupboards also need locks

Always climbing everything, and often getting stuck

Decided he didn't want the cereal so dumped it all on the counter and just drank the milk

Heard screaming and went to our shower to find he had turned on the cold water and trapped himself in the corner and didn't know how to get back out

Griffin had the biggest obsession with pump soap bottles/shampoos and would climb any counter to get access to one, then squirt it all out and smear it in his hair.

He would pump handfuls. And I didn't know what to do because I couldn't just remove all soap from the house or that would mean no hand washing. I tried keeping bathroom doors locked, but the other kids often left doors open. This lead to so many baths to wash away the suds. 

Climbing counters to try and grab anything within range

He also managed to get his hands on a Sharpie a few times and left some nice artwork all over our walls, doors and floors

Attempting to run away. Thankfully our deadbolt is almost impossible for anyone under the age of 8 to turn, or I'm sure we'd have lost him a few times.

Another sink bath, post soap-in-hair incident. He probably thought he was at the spa.

Even sleep was chaotic - sheets out, shirt out, animals out, luckily diaper on!