Stuff Gavin isn't supposed to be doing...

Call James Dobson!  We have a strong willed child on our hands!  Okay, well maybe it's not that bad...but we have caught Gavin doing some pretty ornery things lately.  I would say the fault is probably 75/25 (majority ownership to the parent's)  And by that I mean that we'd probably be a lot more convincing in our discipline if we didn't say "no no" smiling with a camera in front of our face.

Here are some of the rules in the Cox house:

1) People under 2 feet tall are not allowed to rummage through the refrigerator- especially those who do not have the coordination to ensure that major spills do not occur.  There must be a special, high pitched noise that goes off in our house when someone opens the refrigerator; a noise that can only be heard by dogs and babies, because when the refrigerator door opens, Gavin comes acrawling.  I think he wants to live on the bottom shelf. 

2) No one in the Cox house is allowed to crawl in the additional storage space underneath the oven (please note that this is not a broiler and that the oven was also NOT on...although we actually are really strict about this whether the oven is on or not since we know he doesn't know the difference). 

3) No one in the Cox house is allowed to drink red food dye directly from the bottle...for any reason (I have to tell Matthew this all the time!) I must say, this whole ordeal could have been a WHOLE lot worse..and he's crying not because it tastes bad, but because I took the bottle out of his mouth.  And then we baby proofed the pantry...

4) People who don't know how to write are not allowed to have pens.  This is a very favorite obsession of Gavin's- he loves pens, straws...really anything sharp and pointed that he could wield into his eye.  Nice.  If you look really closely, you will see that he has a pen mark on his upper lip...and he's pretty pleased about it.  

5) You are not allowed to pretend that you're a samurai until you're at least 10.  Why I thought it was a good idea to buy a low sitting vase that would house hundreds of, you guessed it, sharp & pointed things, is beyond me.  Fortunately, Gavin forgets that we have this a good portion of the time...but when he's reminded, Look out!  

I am not sure if this list of rules is on any of James Dobson's top five lists...but we're working on it.