Rule Bender and why I am looking into military school for toddlers...

Rule Bender is 2 so that makes him a rule bender by nature but it not just his age that gets him this name. I can honestly say he has been tis way since he was conceived. We had just returned from a Disney trip we had taken with another family who had a kid the same age as Straight Line and the whole trip the two kids had been bickering, fighting and in general making everybody miserable. I returned from the trip and firmly told Mr. Clean that if having a second kid meant making up my own bickering team I rather have only one kid. I should have then followed it up with sending Mr. Clean to Siberia for a few years coz without much bow chika bow wow I was suddenly pregnant. So u c even before he was born Rule Bender was already bending rules.

Now before any of you suddenly take it upon themselves to suddenly come up in Rule Benders defense you should know 2 things
a] YOU don't live with him
b] On good days he is like this

This pictured does not even begin to do justice to the chocolaty mess he created that day from a teeny box of Nutella.

I have quite a few theories on why he is this way and mostly all of them are Mr. Clean's fault. See when Straight Line was born I was in India and Mr. Clean here in USA so Straight Line had been exclusively in my care the first 4 months of his life and turned out who he is. When Rule Bender was born I had a Csection and while the doctors were putting be back together again Mr. Clean had Rule Bender all to himself for a few hours. I have an inkling that the baby got switched in that duration coz there is no way Rule Bender is genetically linked to Straight Line. They are really chalk and cheese. Most days end with both of them fighting and Rule Bender driving Straight Line to tears.

When he started crawling I probably bought out the whole babyproofing section of Target coz we so needed it. Well it took Rule Bender some hours to figure everything out and foil my plans. I had serious thoughts of renting him to one of those babyproofing consultants so that he could test out the house after the consultant had done his work.

Ofcourse I should thank my stars that he has still not done this

Coz if I were ever to see this sight at my house I would personally check myself into a mental asylum.

In spite of all the complains I have of him he is my baby. I see a lot of my personality in him. He is outgoing and very people friendly. Straight Line even now is very wary of people and will never initiate a conversation on his own. Rule Bender on the other hand can talk to anyone and everyone. He has to wave hello to everyone on the road; the dog walker with the ferocious looking pitbull, the UPS guy who is delivering two houses down, the guy spraying weed killer on the pavement, the chimney cleaner working next door as long as they will spare him a look Rule Bender will talk to them.

Rule Bender has two obsessions in life Balloons and Dogs in that order. Give him a balloon and he will be your friend for life. He does not have any boundaries when it comes to balloons. The kid 3 tables down celebrating his birthday, the open house signs at the end of the road, the balloon tied to the mail box advertising a yard sale, the ones at the pharmacy advertising a deal or the ones fluttering at the pretzel store all of it is fair game to him. You would not want to know how many times I have begged, borrowed or stolen baloons from various stores at the mall just so that he would move away from the store. But getting a balloon is not a be all end all. The real problem starts now. Coz as long as the balloon is all filled up with helium he spends his time trying to pull it down, stomp on it and in general not letting it fly and then when a day or two later the helium is all gone he will be seen flinging the balloon up in the air to send it up.

Anyways Rule Bender has absolutely no issues in playing/imitating Straight Line or any other older kid for that matter. He is always joining them in everything even thought he may not be ready for it. He has no fear at all and will probably end up being the contestant who will be eating sheep eye while shimmying up a skyscraper while jumping through a hoop of fire.

There is a lot more to his story but thats for later....


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