We're watching your every move...

This is what you see at the top of our stairs.  You'd think this would deter said child from going downstairs and gorging on food while the rest of the house (and most of the world) is still asleep.  Most of the time it does.  One fateful Saturday morning it did not.  We go downstairs to an entire box of Little Debbie brownies (You know the ones.  Those good ones with the nuts on top of them. Yum, yum).  So after once again re-asserting that we are the keepers of the food and that the camera is in fact watching him, we've had no more incidences of sneaking food in the early morning hours.  He will still do it in the daytime/evening hours but we're making small progress.  Baby steps people. 

This has led us to a whole other issue altogether.   I had to work this past weekend (Saturday and Sunday) so that left Brian with the duty of caring for the spawn.  He sends me a text message on Saturday and tells me he has found chewed up pencils in Brady's room.  I'm not talking about pencils that have been chewed on but are still in their whole form.  Oh no.  These are pencils that are chewed into little crumbs.  All in his carpet.  So what do good parents do you ask? We give him a Furminator (dog grooming brush) and make him brush it all up out of his carpet.  Parents of the year right here.  He also happened to have a dentist appointment for a cleaning on Tuesday.  Before he went back, I told the hygienist about the pencil chewing/eating.  When she came out to get me for his exam she said, "I tried to get off all of the lead staining but there was some that wouldn't come off."  Great....just great.  My kid now has lead colored teeth.  So the dentist talked to him about how he was going to break his fillings, end up with dentures and maybe even end up with lead poisoning (just to scare him).  Do you think that phases an Aspergers kid that has little common sense?  No it doesn't.  So what does one do about this you might ask?  You buy your 10 year old teething toys.  Yep....going back to having a teething baby.  So if you see a 10 year old on the street with a teething necklace on, that's my kid.

The Necklace:

A teething stick: