It's A Really Good Thing...

That Caleb has a room to go to when he does something bad. He has really overstepped it this time with his destructive behavior.

When Lorelei and I went to the mother/daughter pajama party last week, they took a digital photo of each mother/daughter. They then photo shopped, added text about the occasion and printed them on photo paper.

I got ours today when I picked Lorelei up from school and I was super excited. It was a super good picture of us, doing something together and absolutely perfect for scrapbooking...or at least it was....

Caleb took it upon himself to throw all of the paperwork I had on the coffee table all over the floor; picture included. I assume he was looking at the photo at some point and then threw that on the floor. He then stepped on the photo (glossy side to the floor), found it funny when it stuck to him, and ran around the downstairs about 4 times before I realized what he had stuck to his foot.

That nice picture...is now ruined. It has a hole in it, it's all bent...it's not even salvageable.

I am so angry. I sent him to his room and told him he better stay there for awhile. He thinks it's perfectly okay to ruin other people's things, but won't let Lorelei touch one of his toys. In fact, I'm so angry right now I'm honestly considering returning something we got him for Christmas -- possibly that DS he's been drooling over.

I have to go up and talk to him. I need to figure out a punishment. I'm still so mad that he ruined a good memory that I don't even know if I can do it calmly. I don't know why he thinks other peoples possessions are not worth respecting...