Trouble-Maker or Problem-Solver

In the few weeks that we have been home since our revisit, Kevin has found some clever new ways to entertain himself, that have been driving us crazy!  It seems as if another shift is happening in Kevin by the examples we have recently witnessed that I guess could be a good sign.  As you know, his favorites are ceiling fans, running water, and lights.  Despite our best efforts, Kevin is continually trying to find ways to get to these items.  In fact, when we are walking in the neighborhood, Kevin can easily spot a ceiling fan that is turned on in a house as we walk by on the sidewalk.  When we are visiting a house or store for the first time Kevin traipses all over until he finds a ceiling fan and the switch to control that ceiling fan.  If we return to that house or store, you can be sure he will remember where the ceiling fan is located.  Here at home, we have door knob guards on many of our doors, one being the bathroom door, but just this week he discovered that he can easily remove the child proof guards from the door knob so that he can open and shut the bathroom door to play with the water at the sink.  We recently got a new kitchen faucet and until now Kevin had not paid much attention to it, but he quickly figured out how the new faucet turns on and off and he is now tall enough to reach the light and fan on the microwave oven above the stove – I didn’t even know that he knew that was there, because we never use it.  So now he loves to go back and forth between the kitchen faucet and microwave turning buttons on and off.  Then the other night, after we put him to bed, we heard him moving around in his room quite a bit.  Jon went up to check on him to find that Kevin had pushed his big blue recliner chair to the middle of his bedroom so that he could stand up on it to reach his ceiling fan.  Jon had to tuck the ceiling fan chains up inside the light fixture so that he won’t be able to reach them…for now.   And did you hear about the evening we were out doing errands?  We had to drive by the mall (where the video was taken of him walking to see the ceiling fan at the cookie store).  He began whining because he saw the mall and wanted to go to the mall, but we stopped at a store that was across from the mall.  When Jon got Kevin out of the car, Kevin began darting across the parking lot with the full intention of getting to the mall.  Jon quickly caught up with him and Kevin was not too happy about going into our store so we quickly finished our business and the rest of our errands were cut short.

But then at the end of the day, as we snuggle on the couch and watch a show before bed, Kevin typically puts his good right arm around my neck to snuggle and give me hugs, but this week he began using BOTH arms and holding BOTH hands together as he gives me HUGS!!!  What trouble-maker?…I don’t remember any trouble.  Kevin is the best boy in the world!