16 Signs

Signs that might indicate that there is a toddler in the house:

• Things are never where you left them.
• Toilets flush when everyone who uses them are all together in another room.
• Groceries and dishes line the edges of the counters.
• Water runs in the sinks at odd times.
  
• Someone's pink bear smells like shampoo.
• An entire bottle of whiteboard cleaner has been sprayed on the whiteboard.
• Things get put where they belong.
• There is a colorful drawing on your lesson plans page that matches the colorful Sharpies in the container on your desk.
• Those Sharpies are put back, upside down and with the lids not quite tightly closed, but put back.  Along with any stray pens or pencils that have been rounded up.
• There is chocolate (yes, it is positively chocolate!) on the handle of the toilet.
• Deadbolts that were left unlocked are now locked, and deadbolts that were locked are now unlocked.
• The toilet is plugged with an entire package of kid wipes.
• You find a book of Tennyson's Poems on your desk, and you didn't put it there.  (T is at the end of the alphabet, which in our house means that it is on a low shelf...)
• You left the oven open to let the leftover heat escape into the kitchen, and it is shut when you return.
• You sit down in a chair or couch with a drink in your hand, and a coaster appears at your elbow.
• There is dry laundry soap on the floor and inside the washing machine, on top of your pile of freshly washed laundry.
  

I think there might be a toddler in my house!