1.  You walk into the kitchen to find your son standing on the counter drinking honey and yelling "HOT TEA, HOT TEA" repeatedly.  Solution:  You wipe the honey off his face, forehead and ear (?) and send him back up the stairs to bed.
2.  You walk around the corner and find your son eating a granny smith apple that came from....anyone???  anyone???  Uh, I don't KNOW.  Solution:  You let him finish the apple and then you send him BACK upstairs.
3.  You walk back into the kitchen because you think you hear something going through the trash can and you find your son on the counter AGAIN and this time he has a handful of granola bars in his hand.  Solution:  You open the granola bar, hand it to him and send him BACK upstairs.
4.  You hear a loud crash of glass upstairs.  You run upstairs, throw on the bedroom light and find a screaming Ethan jumping up and down on a groggy Dad in Ethan's bed.  On the floor is the shattered remains of the glass lamp (who buys a glass lamp from IKEA for a toddler's room-even if it is really cute and really cheap?).  Dad sits up and says, "wha' 'appened?"  Solution:  You clean up the glass, turn out the light and shut the door behind you.  

At least you didn't have to put him to bed.