Where does he get it from?

That question comes up a lot in regards to the Mud Puddle (MP from now on, I am tired of typing the whole thing out and those of you who are with me on this blog thing will get it). There is a lot of blame bandied about as to who is responsible for this quirk or that (The Blood Pool band thing? TOTALLY Scott’s fault). But this particular incident is hard to trace and no one is taking credit.
Let me give you the exact wording on the MP’s family communication from daycare for last Thursday:

Today’s Menu Bean Soup, Broccoli, Bread, Pears and Milk he ate some
At nap time he relaxed quietly (which can mean lying down on his cot or chatting with his neighbors).
Highlights of today: Overall he had fun playing in all areas. Many times he had to be redirected for using bathroom words (the kid loves to talk about his farts).
He played Fair with his friends. He even made a plan with them to come back at night and take toys through the roof . Very creative and ambitious (smiley face).


Um excuse me??? He made plans with his friends to break into daycare and steal toys?? What the….
So I of course had to query him about this. Apparently he and his little buddies had decided they wanted to see what daycare looked like at night and to play with the toys they weren’t allowed to during the day. As we were leaving he whispered to his cohort Marvin “I will see you at 8:30”. I quickly replied “NO YOU WILL NOT. You are in bed at 8:30” and shot Marvin a look letting him know I meant business.

Now I didn’t seriously think the MP was going to sneak out of his bedroom window and toddle down to daycare (which is close enough to walk to and he badly wants to hoof it over to some morning) and shimmy on the roof under cover of darkness.

But just in case, we had a chat at bedtime. No sneaking out of the house and no b and es until you are out of my house. If you want to become a cat burglar after college – great go for it but until you are 22 (or 25 – we have a recorded history of taking our time getting through our undergrad studies) no burglary, no breaking or entering, no criminal activity of any kind.
He seemed ok with that and we made a plan and shook on it.

I honestly have no idea where this idea hatched from or how he would know to climb down from the roof to break in. I swear he has not seen Mission Impossible or the Great Train Robbery or anything like it. I would LOVE to blame his little friends but the MP seems to be the ring leader in these kinds of activities. So at the moment, it remains a mystery where he gets his thieving ideas, but I am not going to take the blame without some kind of genetic testing.