Collin is definitely 3

Mark is out of town for 2 weeks and I think the kids definitely go crazy when he's gone. Or maybe I'm just more crazy so they seem more crazy. Collin has been on one the last couple of days. It started a couple of nights ago when I was looking for his nose sucker. He is just learning to really blow his nose so I sometimes have to assist. He really doesn't like it. So I couldn't find his nose sucker and asked where it was. He told me that he had turned it. Not having a clue what that meant, he had to repeat it several times for me. He finally took me over to the diaper pail (which you put a diaper in and then turn the top over so the diaper will drop in). Apparently he disliked the nose sucker so much that he got rid of it. It was buried under a sackful of poopie diapers.
Then yesterday, my good friend Karen came to town and we were planning on meeting up with her for dinner. As soon as she called saying she was ready to go, I went in search of Collin. He was in his room with a handful of wetwipes. He informed me that he was cleaning the pen. And he needed his hands washed. Upon retrieving the pen, I noticed it was gummy. With further inspection, I realized it was Modge Podge. (Which I had mistakenly left out after finishing a project in the living room. In my defense it was tucked away on a table) I ran into the living room and discovered that Collin had dipped several nearby objects in the Modge Podge and also thought that he could paint my project. There were piles and piles of glue on the letter blocks I had just finished for his room. So I was able to quickly clean those up and went back to the bathroom to get Collin, only to discover that he was coloring the sink with a dry erase marker. Clara has those readily available in her room. So I cleaned that up and packed Collin out to the car where he told me that his toy was stuck. He pulled me over to the front of the car where I found a small toy he had stuffed into the grill of my car. I was able to fish that out and we finally made it to dinner. I was exhausted. And this all happened in the course of 5 minutes.
Then today as I was putting a diaper in the diaper pail, I noted that it wasn't turning over and dropping as it should. Looking closer, I found a piece of gum wedged in between the plunger and the side. Collin really likes turning things over in that thing.
Mark doesn't come home for a week and a half.