'top 'no-in'

-Alex's remarks today as he watched the snow come down.

This morning I folded 3 loads of laundry in 10 minutes. I was pleased.

This morning Alex 'disappeared' downstairs for 10 minutes while the rest of us were upstairs. In that short amount of time he managed to color red marker all over the dining room table, napkins, and all papers within range-found a pair of scissors and cut up a card I had made-pulled a chair to the counter and got the stove knobs down (I take them off & store them in a covered dish trying to encourage safety?!) and put 3 of 4 of them on the stove-and finally, he got down the sugar bowl from a cabinet and devored almost the entire bowl. Wow. How do I top that??

**In case you are curious--his punishment for his destruction is that he can't leave my sight for the afternoon. That means if I have to leave the room, he has to drop what he's doing and come with me (even if it's for 10 seconds). So far, he's pretty annoyed with it.