surrounded by toys
Here we find our heroine completely surrounded, besieged if you will, by toys. What does she want to play with?
This was BY FAR the most benign thing she chose to play with on this, day two of Nora’s exciting new game: “will this kill me?” So far since mastering crawling she’s attempted: electrocution, strangulation, radiation (not kidding), choking, falling (jumping), cutting her toe on granny’s heating vent (actually, that wasn’t just attempted), rolling off the changing table, slamming her head backwards into the floor as hard as possible, climbing the curtains, eating the recycling, pulling a bag down onto her head, smothering herself with bubble-wrap, smothering herself with her playmat, smothering herself with the living room rug, standing up in the bathtub (eek!), and a thrilling choking/strangulation/electrocution triple-action super stunt. All of this happened under careful parental supervision and she was almost never in any real danger, but I can literally feel myself getting older.
Before you ask, yes. We are babyproofing. It just happens we seem to have produced some sort of self-destructive prodigy. All of which, of course, she finds simply hilarious.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Whew…let the games begin!! Nora wasted no time figuring out all that her new locomotion could achieve…and it has only just begun! Dylan can now climb up on the bed in his playroom by pulling out the drawer under the bed, climbing in the drawer and then standing on the edge and launching himself onto the bed. Amazing!! Have fun!! (He also loves the remote better than most of his toys!)
July 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Want to borrow a two-year-old and get the babyproofing all over with at once? It’ll take, oh, 2-3 days….. In then end, you will have nothing on any table tops, no curtains, few blinds, and will eat your dinner while seated on floor cushions rather than chairs (which have been known to make great ladders for toddlers).
July 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
zara liked to talk on remotes, tho not so much these days. nice onesie. And it sounds to me that she’s right on track with regular old infant self-destruction in my experience, and not just with Z - nothing prodigious about it. So it really makes you wonder what a self-destructive prodigy would be like… or not :)
July 29th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I highly recommend the KidCo Magnetic Cabinet Locks - very handy and they work well. The best link I could find was on Amazon… http://www.amazon.com/KidCo-Kidco-Starter-Lock-Set/dp/B000HBVHWM