MOSAIC MOMENTS

As I have said, many times before, Tim was quite a handful when he was younger. Thankfully, he grew out of those hyperactive-into everything-age, but when I look back on it all, it is amazing that we all made it through!

This could be because he has mosaic Down syndrome or because he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), but whatever the reason, life with Tim was, without a doubt, an interesting journey!

One particular incident that comes to mind was when Tim was three years old. Tim often did things in the middle of the night when I was sound asleep. This particular night I woke to the smell of burning plastic and immediately my eyes popped open sure that the entire house was on fire!

I jumped out of bed and ran through the house to find the source of the smell. Upon entering the kitchen I came to a full halt realizing that this was indeed another antic of Tim’s.

MY KITCHEN WAS A MESS!

The refrigerator door was wide open with every single condiment, left over, beverage, vegetable and all 12 eggs just bought the day before were crushed into smithereens all over the kitchen floor!

Now, I wish I could say that that was the only trouble, but of course, we are talking about MY son, and there is no way that he would stop there!

He had successfully emptied the entire pantry and each box of macaroni, rice, crackers, and cookies were completely emptied and appropriately crunched to microscopic size throughout the kitchen floor and of course, on top of the wet eggs.

But that’s not all! There is no way that my story could end here, because this would be something that perhaps any typical three-year-old would do. And if my son is anything, he is NOT typical!

I don’t know how he did it….. I don’t even know where he got it…. but somehow, someway, Tim located and effectively opened each tiny container of food coloring and somehow, someway, I had a beautiful array of red, blue, yellow and green hand-prints and foot prints not only on the floor, not only on the refrigerator, not only on the cabinets, but I had foot prints up the kitchen wall! 

Now, in the midst of this mess, which is definitely NOT something you wish to see at two in the morning, I still had the dilemma of the smell of burning plastic!

I quickly found the source of the smell and the offender in which was purposing the smell. My tiny three-year-old son, with he round cherubic face looked up at me from under the kitchen table and said “I eat”.

Upon reaching down to bring my son from his hiding place I discover the toaster which had been on the counter and plugged in way above his head. The toaster was now plugged in to the outlet under the kitchen table and inserted in the toaster are two small plastic toy plates with Big Bird’s smiling face–well, he wasn’t smiling any more!

I quickly unplugged the toaster, closed the refrigerator door, sat Tim in the sink to quickly wash off the tale-tale signs of his adventure and asked him why he was up and “eating”. He jabbered something to me that I really could not understand completely and at 2 in the morning really didn’t care for an explanation.

I put him in fresh pj’s and told him to NOT get up out of bed until the sun woke up and made my way back through the kitchen, over the eggs and assorted condiments, past the rainbow of footprints and handprints and considered cleaning the mess, then reconsidered since I would be up in just a few hours anyway and went back to sleep!

The next morning when I took Tim to school, I told his pre-school teacher what he had done. She turned a crimson red and said that she felt it was her fault because she told the children when they wake up they eat breakfast!

I reminded her to add the disclaimer that NO ONE has breakfast before the sun is awake!

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