It's hard to describe oddities to people. We're living it so we get used to it overall. Luk still has odd behavior. We can't get through a meal without correcting things with him. Fork out of your ear, not in your nose either. Ew, don't rub food in your hair. Use your spoon, use your spoon, use your spoon. Use your napkin. You can't use fingers for soup. Seriously, weird noises and gross messes are just the norm. Kai has a whole other set of quirkiness. He gorges to start and dives into his food. We have to work on slowing him down. He can eat a banana in three bites. Plus he needs help figuring out the spoon still.
With Kai it's clear he's used to wandering around, helping with chores and keeping busy with very little.
For the family photo I laid out two blue stripped hair o's for Jia to have pig tails. They went missing. We all know Kai took them because who else would. He couldn't produce them so I just did her hair differently. Yesterday when I got home the two hair o's were in my bathroom upstairs.
Kai got out of bed at 5am yesterday. Lili tried to get him back to bed but he refused so she came to get us. We said to leave him because he'll just wander and then come and find me. Except he didn't this time. Eric had to go get him, he was in the main bathroom throwing the toilet seat lid down repeatedly. With such velocity it was amazing it didn't break.
There is usually extra rolls of toilet paper on the backs of the toilets. We were out upstairs. Then the last roll in use went missing. I found it on the fireplace mantle. Kai strikes again :)
If we lay our glasses down, Kai moves them.
Kai was in a snit because Jia didn't want him in the bathroom with her, he had to be removed and then he proceeded to roll a Chinese scroll painting that is hanging on the wall. He wouldn't be redirected from that until I came to sit with him. He hasn't looked at the painting again.
When he is stressed or confused he runs to either the garbage can or laundry hamper and starts slamming the lids up and down.
He is all about tearing down towers so he is extremely annoying to Luk in the duplo department.
This morning every time I looked away he headed into the bathroom to play with the tub taps. Which is a change from jiggling the door knobs. Most of these things seem to be an attempt to annoy us and get attention. He does these things for the most part when we're trying to get ready to leave.
Nothing serious. No head banging. No self mutilating. No destruction of property. Not making messes. No gross habits. Just odd quirky moments. Over and over again. We're starting to be quite mindful of hiding things from Kai and putting some stuff up high. He's an opportunist for sure.
