Busyknitter

T has been getting much more active in his bedroom in the evenings, literally bouncing around till 10, 11 or even 12pm.

And the casualty of all this is his furniture.

At the beginning of the summer we had to remove the small drawer unit that holds his clothes because he kept knocking it over. About three months ago we had to remove a large wooden chest of drawers from the room (which is mostly used for linen storage) because he was jumping up and down on it and had cracked the top. Two weeks ago we had to empty all the plastic containers from his storage unit because Ted just kept pulling them out, tipping all his toys on the floor and then getting upset by the mess. Last week we had to move the unit itself because Ted discovered that if he pushed it on its side it made a really good frame for practising tightrope walking on (and he’s got the bruises to show for this particular experiment).

At the weekend, we had to take the base unit of his bed out of the room. He’s always pulled the mattress off the bed to use it as a crash mat for his evening workout. But now he’s he discovered how easy it is (and how much fun!!) to turn the base unit upside down and jump up and down on it. He’s broken the drawers in the divan and I wouldn’t put much hope in the frame lasting much longer. So we’ve removed it.

And last night he pulled the bookcase to pieces

So now all there is in Teddy’s bedroom is a mattress (and it’s a big room). We are giving the toy storage unit away and the bed frame and bits of bookcase will have to go to the dump. The drawer units are now living in our bedroom.

And i used to say he wasn’t destructive.