Tape, Tape, Tape

Samuel has entered what I like to call the "office supply" phase. He loves tape, scissors, glue, and paper. Loves them so much that last night we wrote a letter to Santa and he asked for tape for Christmas. I think if we were to take him to Office Depot right now and let him loose in the tape and scissors aisle, he might just pass out.

This weekend Ernie was installing some towers that he built in our closet, and to keep Samuel occupied, we gave him a brand new roll of tape and some paper. He managed to use the ENTIRE roll while we worked in the closet.



The closet is not done yet, but here are how the towers are looking right now:





After we finished working in the closet and Samuel had used up all of the tape we keep upstairs in the office, we went downstairs, where he found the tape we keep in the kitchen (Santa? If you read our blog, seriously send him some tape.) He crawled under the kitchen table and was quietly working away with tape and scissors for quite some time.





A quiet kid usually means trouble, and this was no exception. Look what he decided to cut with his safety scissors:



Yes, that would be Ernie's shoelace. Did you know a 3 year old with safety scissors could cut shoelaces? We obviously did not. So we now have a rule that scissors can ONLY be used while sitting at the table, and they can ONLY cut paper.