My nephew is quite the same. He's handsome, smart, and a total deviant as well! Today (or yesterday, for you diurnal people), I was about to get my shower. Well, I heard commotion outside the door, so I checked. Everyone had gathered around a bedroom door, so I listened in a little. My nephew, smart as a whip, had locked everyone out of the bedroom! And I could see through the crack of the door that he was on a bed, bouncing and laughing, because he realized, "I just outsmarted the adults!" Well,... At least until he realized that adults have the power to knock the door in
Whenever I'm about to leave, he'll stand hanging out of the door, shouting "Uncle John, I love you!" every couple seconds until I'm no longer in visual range. The only time he doesn't is when he's preoccupied. He loves trains, trees, trucks, cars, and banging things. He loves the house dogs, and loves his family. Watching him be nuts (as long as he isn't driving me nuts) allows me to see that not everything is so dull and bad from the daily grind. It gives me some kind of hope that maybe we'll break the cycle of the mundanely wrong
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