L&L like to help

My kids have 2 very different ideas of helpful.  Laney is truly helpful.  She tidies up toys and messes left behind by her brother, organizes books on the shelves, and even dresses herself for me.  Last night she even got her room and Liam's ready for bed while I dressed him in his jammies, setting out books for me to read to Liam and layed out his sleep sack on the reading chair (so cute!).

Liam has a different idea of helpful.  He tries, it's just that when he is helpful I usually have an extra hour or 2 of undoing his helpfulness.  In the span of the last 24 hours, he has done the following "helpful" things:
1.  Carried a bowl of {thankfully dry} cereal to the table and dropped it on the floor, covering our kitchen in Chocolate Rice Krispies.
2.  Vacuumed up the Rice Krispies, and then went on to vacuum up the magnetic alphabet letters and Mr. Potato Head arms and ears.
3.  Cleaned off the dinner table by flinging the rice onto the newly vacuumed floor.
4.  Helped me do the laundry by taking out the lint screen in the dryer to clean it, and then stuffed Mickey Mouse magnets into the lint trap of the dryer.
5.  Folded laundry that I had just folded by throwing it into a pile onto the floor as I fished the magnet out of the dryer.

So, in the last 24 hours I have vacuumed twice, taken apart the vacuum bag to find the magnets and appendages, scrubbed the rice off the chairs and table, refolded the laundry, and MacGyvered a magnet retrieval tool out of a telescoping Swiffer duster with duct tape wrapped around the end.  I played a frustrating game of Operation with our dryer, beating it after a few rounds of almost pulling the magnet out of the lint trap and then dropping it just as it hit the opening.  Side note:  our 15 year old babysitter didn't know what I was talking about when I told her I MacGyvered something and I had to explain it to her.  Ugh I feel old.  

At any rate, my little Liam is doing his best, but helpful he is not.  At least he still thinks cleaning is fun.