Smile, you’re on Candid Camera

I had always intended not to contribute to this blog, but to let the creativity and youthfulness of the Team Kess boys serve as the authors. In this particular case, I dont think Corey would accurately recap the events of the day.

While Corey was in Palm Springs this past weekend celebrating his birthday in Palm Springs with Grandma and Grandpa J and Lauren, he purchased a security camera with his birthday money. The security camera has a removable USB thumb drive to record video and then to copy it to a computer. It also has the ability to follow and track movement in a room. Corey was very proud of his purchase. We thought he would just put it on the shelf and add it to his collection of a safe with fingerprint biometric reader, a functional ATM machine, and a door alarm built with an electronics kit (which has since been removed).

This is all background to today’s event…while the boys were at a friends house today, Wendy noticed that a power drill was laying on Corey’s bed. She thought this was really odd, but didnt notice any holes or new pictures on the wall, so she let it go. The question was posed to Corey while eating dinner tonight, “why is there a power drill on your bed.” To which Corey responded with something to the effect of, “To install my security camera of course.”

Corey finally filled in the rest of the details. He went out to the shed this morning and got my power drill. He stood on his bed and drilled two holes into the ceiling (not the wall….Wendy neglected to check the ceiling). He tried to screw the security camera into the ceiling, but it looks like the screws didnt hold in the plaster ceiling. He had temporarily given up while he left for a friends house.

So, tomorrow, Corey is going to patch the holes, sand it down, and then paint. And he’ll be either setting the camera on his shelf or drilling it into a block of wood. There will be no installation on the ceiling or the walls. I dont know why he thought it would be fine to install a camera in the ceiling. We have also banned the use of power tools without parental notification.