see the carnage behind him? 95% of it is the direct result of him busting baby gate #3 off its freakin hinges (another one bites the dust!) while i was in the bathroom for about 5 minutes.
here’s the speech i gave the three older boys when they got home from school:
“i need some help cleaning the toy room. i know you didn’t make the mess, and i know it’s bad. it’s going to take you guys at least an hour to clean it up. but it would take me at least two hours to do by myself, but i have to clean the rest of the house and we’re not going to get to do anything fun tonight if i have to clean that up, too. so if you will please just help me out here, everybody gets a new bakugan.”
i almost never resort to bribes, not because i’m a good parent, but because i am cheap. but given the speed and silence (not so much as an attempt to bargain for less work! not a single complaint!) with which they proceeded to thoroughly clean the room, i must say, i’m a BIG fan.
