Random Room Checks

I don’t even have a teenager in the house, but I learned the value of checking in Tyler’s room when he was three. The reason? The messy and odd things you will find in a kid’s room.
Yes, 3 year old Tyler, in YOUR room. Don't look at me like that. To my friends that just have little babies pay attention this will save you. I thought as Tyler got older the issue would improve, but it has gotten worse.

I went through the bathroom the other night; yes you need to go through the bathroom as well!
I found:
-Chuck E Cheese token
-Rocks
-Brown marker
-Used Q tips???
-A full bottle of men’s cologne (and it wasn’t taken from Jason’s collection)*
-Sports water bottle with water in is that was two months old
-Size stickers from clothing
-School lunch schedule
-Empty hair conditioner bottle, empty sunscreen bottle, empty toothpaste tube, empty Dixie Cups box

In the last six months I have found the following objects is his room:
-Wood Chips
-Rocks, what is with kids and rocks?
-Sticks
-Used chap stick given to him from a classmate
-Every box or container of every toy, school supply etc bought.
-Cocktail napkin from Southwest Airlines*
-And the best find of them all, a hardboiled egg that was three months old. We found the smell! It was from the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet in February.

Why is it I find these things but not the item I went into the room for in the first place? I wonder what I will find in Eric’s room one day? Will Tyler be the one to put strange things in his room? Is this a Tyler thing, or a kid thing? I wonder if one day I will find something that is or was alive in someone’s room.

Post a comment, what strange things have you found in your kids rooms?

*Starred items have been determined to be from Tyler's trips to and from California to see his mom.