I just spent the last fifteen minutes.....

Ah yes, the books with the flaps.. I love books, so until my children were old enough the not tear them up, I put away the ones they could destroy and they could only have them when I was supervising.. In the meantime, I would give them the indestructible books that were plastic covered, and they also had the little golden books.. Not that they didn't destroy some books, like the little golden books, I can't tell you how many times those have been colored in... As for cosmetic surgery on something, I do remember with my oldest, this sister of this wonderful lady we knew, gave her a manicure set for her fifth birthday. She always seemed mature for her age and so I explained what each piece was for and it was so cute to see her filing her nails.. Then within a week, I saw in our brand new water bed sheets, what looked like a cut. Of course my daughter denied it, but we knew what happened, so we took away her set until she understood better. I did sew it and it held for a good while.. But I am so happy that she didn't get the water bed itself, my husband would have lost it...lol

LOL I can just picture your lovely son gently removing the flaps in his way! lol When Niamh went through her cutting out phase we had to laminate everything we could - bills, receipts you name it whatever she could find ended up as paper snowflakes! Banning her from using her scissors would have caused a lot of heartache so we bought her a set of 20 odd craft scissors - all perfectly safe and each blade that cut a different pattern - and a huge stack of paper! The deal was that if she cut anything she wasn't supposed to the scissors and paper would disappear! It actually worked too! xxx

I used to have to sew up my daughters stuffed animals when she was a child. Now the books you refer to here I've seen many different ones at the local Dollar Stores. Almost cheaper to just buy more at the dollar stores. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Callum loves to rip flaps out of books. Have had to sneak many a book back to the library in this state and he is only eight months old. I think he thinks everything is something to eat.