Pencils are made for making mistakes, right? You mess up while you're writing, spell a word wrong & you just flip the pencil over & erase it. Not in this house. For some reason each newly sharpened pencil has no eraser. Don't get me wrong, they all started out with them. But sometime in their early lives they lost them somehow. Telltale bite marks give evidence to their undoing.
First I thought it was Rebekah doing it, as she is the one who uses the pencils for homework. I even caught her the act of nipping one off. There, problem solved.
But then I caught Tyler doing it too! I watched in horror as he stuck the pencil in his mouth and bit the eraser right off! Ahhh, so there were two culprits.
But no! One day I gave Lucas a freshly sharpened pencil & shortly thereafter the eraser from that one was gone too (although I didn't actually see him do it, I believe circumstantially he was the only one who had that particular pencil at the time). Then there was THREE!
And then there is my sweet baby Samantha. Just this morning she was drawing on the floor (literally) & right by her side was the discarded piece of eraser & the offended pencil in her little hand. Not Sammy too!
No pencil is safe in my home. Despite my pleadings to the contrary, my children take great pleasure in biting the erasers off. Where did this compulsion come from? What did the pencils ever do to them? I just don't know.
What I do know is this: my own stash of pencils is off limits lest they become victim to the teeth of my kids!
that made me LOL :)
Posted by: Shannon Brouwer | March 30, 2007 at 05:51 PM
I can never find a pen when need one. There is a magic thief that will take them out of the kitchen and my purse. While you have seen ytour culprits, I have not.
Course there are some unknown pens in my purse - I don't mean to take them but alas, it must be true. If it wouldn't be painful I would consider permanently attaching some kind of writing device to my body. Makes more sense than tattooing!
Posted by: zalaine | March 30, 2007 at 09:17 PM