An Idea

I was practicing the piano, and I heard the suspicious sound of running water. I walked into the kitchen to find that Peanut Maximus had of his own accord pushed a dining room chair up to the sink and was “washing the dishes.”

He told me to go back to the piano.

He knows when I am playing the piano I am not watching very carefully, and he can sneak around and try things that he probably should not.

The water was making him so happy that I let him keep playing until at some point some of the dishes he filled with water and placed on the counter toppled over resulting in water gushing all over the floor. It kept him busy for a good thirty minutes, though, and he was so pleased with himself.