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cat food, matches and more

Well, Mr Gadget has struck again. I give him this, he is creative in his abilities to take things with slight of hand. He managed to steal a key to the cupboard padlocks. He managed to steal a key to the two new doors that we installed to keep him out of sections of the house. So far we have found: 3 opened cans of cat food. He says that he was hungry. (the cat food is stored in the same cupboard as the people food, at the very bottom of the cupboard.) He knows it is cat food. Says he was sharing it with the cat. 1 box of wooden safety strike on box matches. 1 mp3 player. 1 set of keys to each vehicle we own. oh, and he has made himself throw up his meds again. both last night and this morning. Plus he has admitted

spooky behavior

My 10 year old would give Houdini a run for his money in the magic disappearance category. What is spooky about it is when he goes into a room you can tell that he is cataloging the contents of the room. Determining thos items that he can take. It isn’t suspicion that makes me think this. I have seen him do it. Then when he fixates on something, that item disappears as quick as you can blink your eye. The item might be of little to no value, and it might be expensive, it doesn’t matter, once he sets his mind to it, that item becomes his, or at least he thinks it does. What makes a person think that way? His therapist claims that he knows right from wrong, because he knows that we will search him and he puts things in places where he knows we won’t search.

Mr Gadget strikes again

Well, David has struck again. the gadget hoarder. A couple of weeks ago he stole a cell phone from his aunt. We took it away. he stole it again. We took it away. We hid it in a room behind a locked door. and he got it again. (went into the room when said occupant was sleeping.. Today I caught him right under my nose using his brother’s tablet computer. No idea how he took it away from the place in my desk where it was stored without me knowing about it, but he did. Oh, and he took my stash of gum. ate all of it in one 4 hour period. I am not blind, so how did I now notice this? Tweet #fighting4answrs