Ayden, Ayden, Ayden, Ayden (sigh)

What am I going to do with my three year old! All of the sudden she has become so destructive. Of course she went through a destructive phase around 2 but it stopped so I thought we got over it, until lately. I turn my back and she is into trouble. Here are some recent examples.

She has this thing about spreading toys all over the house. This mess was in 10 minutes, 10 MINUTES! See the toys in the back round too. She takes all the toys in her room and just spreads them around. I don't know why. But multiple time a day we put them all in a basket, take them back to her room and put them away. They always find there way back.

Next, the paper from my paper shredder. I think this was while I was showering. We have had a paper shredder for over a year and this is the first time she has gotten into it. I always leave it off and unplugged and would wonder if I really needed to but now I am really glad it was off because realistically bloody fingers would have been worse then this mess, oh wait...

No, not bloody fingers nail polished fingers. Last night while I was fixing dinner she came out looking like this! She found some nail polish in my bathroom and hid in her little house in her room while she painted her nails more like fingers. AHHH. Don't you love that she is wearing a pretty white sweater? Amazingly she only got a tiny bit on her sleeve.

Yesterday she also decided to color on the wall and window seal. These picture don't do justice to how much she colored on! She hasn't colored on the wall in FOREVER. Why are all these naughty 2 year old behaviors coming back? Why is she regressing? I can't think what it is except maybe that we have been trying to get her to stop sucking her fingers and if she can go 6 days without sucking them then she gets an Little Mermaid polly pocket. So maybe she has to get into trouble to distract herself from sucking her fingers. What do you think?

On a positive note, I will also share some positive (sort of) things about Ayden.
-She is getting pretty smart with electronics. The first example is she came to me with my cell phone and told me she wanted to call Grandma Kay. I was on the other phone with a friend so I asked her to wait just a minute. The next thing I know she is talking to someone on the phone and sure enough it was Grandma. How she found her number, I don't know. She wasn't the last person I called so it would be pretty hard to find her number. The second example is that she drew a picture and then left it on the ground, then Brad not knowing what it was picked it up and crumbled it to throw it away and Ayden was devastated. I tried to get the wrinkles out as well as I could and gave it back. Then a few minutes later she came running to me really excited saying that she fixed her paper. Sure enough there was the same picture only perfectly smooth. I asked her how she did that and she said "I copied it." I had no clue that she even knew what a copier was let alone how to use it.