Birth Control

I have discovered the perfect birth control, guaranteed to work with 99% accuracy or your money back. And it only takes a month to work for the rest of your life! What's this amazing medicine called? Joshua. It's been in circulation for 17 months now and only has one failure so far.

Joshua is guaranteed to provide the following services...

Open the refrigerator at least 50 times a day, or until you notice your milk souring before the expiration date

Attempt to carry a full gallon of milk to the living room at least 5 times a day

Bring you every box of cereal and crackers that you own

Add cat food to both the litter box and the dog treat box

Attempt to eat something edible out of the trash can

Slam the toilet lid and seat down 15 times a day while you cringe, waiting for the toilet to shatter in a million pieces

Fly through the bathroom door every time you use the toilet and slam it behind him upon entering, often with his fingers in the way

Flush the toilet at least 3 times every time you are sitting on it using it

Remove everything from the bathroom cabinets every time you are in the shower and gleefully run away with your blush brush when you tell him to put it back

Clean toothbrushes in the toilet

Remove every DVD you own from the shelf, open five of them to remove the discs, and only scratch two of them on a daily basis

Randomly choose 20 books to remove from the bookshelf, paging through half of them, ripping 2 of them, and writing in 3 of the library ones

Threaten to impale himself with one of the many sharpened pencils, pens, knitting needles, or scissors that he finds (these happen to be the same ones that you can never find)

Slam his fingers in the front door twice a week

Turn the living room and porch light off and on, over and over, for ten minutes straight on a nightly basis

Get stuck between the couch and the side table three times a day

Climb up on and fall off of the dining room table twice a day

Randomly walk over to you while you are lying on the floor with your older kids and axe kick you in the forehead

Climb on you and bounce on your stomach until you think it has ruptured

Use your chest and then shoulder to reach the top of the couch so he can look out the window five feet off the ground

Eat 25 times a day and drink 273 fluid ounces but refuse anything placed on bread

Nurse 27 times a day, usually using his teeth

Screech at a volume that only a high powered bullhorn can reach

Stick his fingers in his diaper and show you his dark brown fingers in disgust

So, anyone care to borrow him for a month?

Note: This list is only slightly exaggerated. Despite everything he redeems himself with each smile, giggle, and crawl across the dinner table to give you a kiss.