Messing up stuff

All neat and tidy..


.. the messer upper at work..


...and then leaving the scene of the crime!

Timmy is very into messing up his bookshelf. As you can see, he's got quite a lot of books, which we try to stack neatly on his own personal shelf. I sometimes bring him over there to try to read a book to him, but barely 3 pages into it, he'll start struggling to get to the shelf. Once he manages to wriggle free, he'll proceed to toss the books off the shelf onto the floor, only contented when most of them are randomly scattered..

As you can tell from the video, he even has pretty strict criteria on how far is far enough... And if he spots you trying to tidy the books up while he's playing with something else, he'll quickly crawl over and mess up the shelf in the midst of your best efforts to put the books back.. It's the same with his box of toys. His favourite past time seems to be creating chaos out of order!

I can hardly wait till he's old enough to tidy up after himself! Hmm.. or maybe I'll settle for him being old enough to stop throwing his books and toys all over the place for now..