Despereaux

Griffin has absolutely fallen in love with this movie. Grandma and Grandpa gave it to him in his Easter basket and we've watched it many times already. What is really great is to see him act out things later. During the movie the little mouse uses a needle as a sword to help save the princess. This weekend Griffin promptly took the 3 pieces of our vacuum cleaner (the crevice tool and two extension pieces) and pretended he was Despereaux.

I finally ended up putting the two extension pieces away in the closet so he wouldn't lose them. Sunday night as Mike was getting ready to vacuum, he asked where the crevice tool was. I said I had no idea. I had seen Griffin playing around on the deck with it so I took a flashlight and looked around the deck...not there. We then kind of just forgot about it because we didn't really need it at the time and figured it would show up.

Fast forward to Monday morning.... Griffin and I were getting ready and Griffin was playing in the laundry room. He messed up the blinds a bit so I pulled them up to fix them. Lo and behold, what do I see, but the crevice tool laying out on the roof outside the laundry room window (our laundry room is on the 2nd floor). I asked Griffin to look out the window and tell me what he saw. He told me he saw the needle. And I asked him why it was out there...he said he was done playing with it so he put it out there. Ha, ha! Yes, Saturday I had the window cracked as I was doing laundry and he and I were in the laundry room (there is no screen on that window yet). Somehow he managed to throw the tool out on the roof and I never noticed (I was watching to make sure he didn't himself try to get out there--but I never thought he'd throw anything else out there).

The boy cracks me up... And, I handily used the broom to get the crevice tool back in the house. What fun!