It Begins

David John is definitely on his way to terrible twodom. He has started to throw an occasional tantrum, gives an occasional shove and he has definitely started scheming.
A few weeks ago, things around the house started to go missing. I would look everywhere without success. Finally, I discovered that these missing items were disappearing down the laundry chute. Frequently, I would open the laundry chute to run the dirty clothes and instead would find things like this:
Once I knew where things were going it was time to find out who was doing it. Luckily, David John talks to himself about his naughty deeds. I noticed him several times a day walking with a random object toward the bathroom and murmuring to himself in a sing-song voice "laundry chute, laundry chute, laundry chute". Aha! Caught in the act! Now I am usually able to dissuade him or at least trade him a dirty sock for whatever he was planning to throw down.
The second bit of David John scheming we've recently witnessed involved Benjamin's binky. Last month, David John was finally weaned off of his binky (or as he calls it "minky") and we threw it away. I guess he decided if he couldn't have a binky then no one could. I found him, with Benjamin's binky, walking determinedly toward the trash can and saying to himself, "Bye-bye baby minky. Bye-bye baby minky." He sounded a little possessed. I saved the "minky" much to his chagrin.