Yesterday, Saturday/23Aug, David told Adam to clean up his toys as it was scattered everywhere in the lounge room and his own bedroom.
David gave him a box and told him to put all his toys in there and put the box in Adam's bedroom.
I was in the kitchen cleaning up and about 20minutes later, Adam came into the kitchen and emptied the dust-pan that's full of dust, into the rubbish bin.
Then it was very silent for another 20mins and I thought David had set Adam about doing some other tasks, so I went to ask David, "What did you ask the boy to do now?? I saw him earlier with the dust-pan full of dust that was emptied into the bin in the kitchen and I haven't heard anything from him."
"I didn't ask him to do that! I only asked him to clean up his toys!", David exclaimed.
"Well..it's wayyyyy too quiet for too long downstairs..and he's either doing something he shouldn't or doing something you've asked him to", I said.
"Adaaaaaaaammmmmm!! Where are youuuuuuuuu???" called David.
"I'm downstairs...I'm sad..because....mumble..mumble....sob ...sob!!" came the sound from downstairs.
"Come up here so I can hear you", said David.
Up the little boy came..ever so sloooooowly.
"Now, what were you doing and what did you say just now?", asked David.
"I was sitting on my bed because I was saddddddddddd!! I cleaned up my room and threw out the rubbish..and I'm being good...and SOB! SOB!! you didn't say I was good and that's why I was saddddddd!!!!.....WAAHHHHH!!!", Adam cried with the saddest sounding voice he can muster.
"But but, Daddy didn't ask you to clean your room, Daddy says to clean up your TOYS, you silly bugger...and Daddy didn't know that you've swept the floor of your room so how can Daddy say you're good when Daddy didn't see it?"
"Come here and Daddy will give you a nice HUG. Yes, you're a good boy, Adam!"
"SOB!! SOB!!" sniffled Adam.
When David was giving Adam his good boy HUG, he couldn't help it but was laughing silently but David's whole body was shaking from laughter!!
What a surprise this boy gives us sometimes...did some work which was not asked and expected to be complimented!!I guess we have to be more sensitve to what he does and tell him when he's being good ..since we tell him off often enough when he's being naughty!
When I asked him where he swept to get so much dust into the little dust-pan, he said it was from under his bed! I guess the girl that was supposed to clean our unit up twice a week isn't doing much work since she's been left on her own when I'm at work and David's not around.
She's been drinking Adam's Milo and did not close the lid tight, used my brush, did not finish doing her ironing and playing cards instead and when I came home, the house still felt dusty.
Oh well..I'm just waiting for my phone bill to come as I noticed (using the redial button) that each time no one's home except her, she's been using our phone without permission.
Well..if I see that she's been talking away at our expense, out she goes!
I've been telling David that I don't need a housemaid but he says to give her work and I don't have to do so much but I'd rather prefer my privacy without someone going through my stuff, even if I have to do extra on weekends. The only thing I don't really like and not much looking forward to is the ironing :)
Other than that, I can mop and clean the house just fine without the housemaid and save over A$50 each week!
Oh! By the way, Adam's toys was all in the box too. He cleaned them all up..till he takes them out again tomorrow and scatter them again all over the place!!
