I have decided it is much easier to child proof your house when you only have one child. With just one child, you don't have to worry about an older child leaving the bathroom door open or forgetting to shut the basement door or leaving the gate at the bottom of the stairs open. Granted, you also don't have anyone to help entertain the baby when you are busy so it just may even out.
Gabe has learned how to take full advantage of his siblings and their child proofing slip-ups. He waits for someone to leave the bathroom door open and then runs inside to grab the end of the toilet paper roll and see how far he can get with it before he is caught. If he was carrying anything in his hands before entering the bathroom, he just tosses whatever it is into the toilet. Do you keep those pencils you fish out of the toilet? Abby broke the child lock on the cabinet that houses all of the non-breakable plates, bowls and cups. So now Gabe thinks he has to empty that cabinet at least once a day. He also enjoys pulling all of the cutting boards out of their drawer and scattering them about the house. I do believe we currently have one in the front hall. Yes, I'll pick it up eventually. My least favorite trick of Gabe's is when he goes into the cabinet under the sink. There's nothing under there that can hurt him. Just a couple of crock pots and the garbage bags. But the idiot who designed this house put the switch for the garbage disposal under there. Seriously, what on earth were they thinking? So every so often Gabe reaches in and flips the switch just for kicks. Just the sound you want to hear when you are fishing silverware out of the bottom of the sink. Yes, this cute, adorable tyke keeps us on our toes. But at least all of his activity guarantees that he sleeps well at night.
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As to the the placement of that switch... Well, unfortunately, it probably was the safest place for it at the time. See, if it's "far" away from the actual disposal, there is less chance _you_ might have bits of your flesh in it when you turn it on...
But that also assumes that they were thinking that there could ever be a child in the house.
I was a climber as a child (Still am, i think) and I still am shown pictures of me as a precocious 3 yo in the lazy susan in the corner cabinet (and the dryer... and under the steps in the basement and even in the rafters in the basement (hide and seek was a BIG thing growing up)).
Good luck, Gabe has 6 other 'teachers' and that is 6 times more chance that a slipup will help him conquer his world!
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