PVC Pipe and 3 Year Olds

For Oliver's 3rd birthday, Dennis took him to The Home Depot and bought him some PVC pipe and connectors. Seems harmless enough, right? Initially, things were fine and we played with the pipes outside, doing all sorts of things like jack-hammering, weed-whacking, digging, and we even used them as actual pipes with water running through. Then Dennis bought Oliver more pipes and we let him use them inside in his "worker projects." Possibly not the best idea. The pipes have left marks on the walls of almost every room, Oliver has used them as golf clubs (and you can imagine what happened there), everyone in our family has had some sort of pipe-related injury, etc. Then this morning, Oliver was "working" with one of the larger pipes and really banged it hard into his head. He's fine, but it hurt him enough to make him cry, so that was the last straw and I put all of the pipes away. Maybe we'll use them this summer for a fun project outside. :-)

Other than the pipe incident, we've been having a fun morning. It's cold and raining again, so we pretty much stayed inside all morning except for a (very) brief jaunt outside so Oliver could ride his bike in the rain.

Buttercup spent a lot of the morning pushing her toys around in the doll stroller or the laundry basket.















Oliver and played "teamwork" while Buttercup was busy. I got the Home Depot drill (the orange one) and Oliver used his new IKEA drill (the yellow one). The drills are named according to the stores they match. ;-)

















Picture for Aunt Anna -- see, it matches!