I stopped in my tracks. The main reason being my socks were fused to the floor by a sticky pink goo. When events such as this occur, I feel like a time-warp must have taken place. How could she find this much trouble in only a few minutes? I was in the shower for how long? Long enough for the mischief-maker to slide her chair across the floor, open the top cabinet, unload the medicines and vitamins and proceed to test all the child-proof caps. She found fault in two and dumped the contents of children's cold medicine and chilrend's Tylonal all over herself and the floor. When I found her, she was shiny and pink -- her hair styled with the pink gu. It didn't seem like she drank too much of it. I also found an open bottle of adult Tylonal. It was also spilled all over the floor, in the pink sticky stuff of course. One of the pills had a tiny bite in it and Emma proclaimed, "Yicky." My thoughts exactly. It could have been worse. Thankfully she was just having fun playing in it instead of doing a taste test. As she helped me clean, she stood back shaking her head and saying, "Uh, oh." We're both wondering where her mother was when all this was going on.
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Sure am glad she didn't OD on the stuff. I guess she is way to clever for her own good if she can open child proof caps, I can't get them open half the time. She could have helped me with the bleach bottle this AM
That is all Russell needs- an accomplice.
(Sorry for hanging up on you the other day- Russell had dived head first off the sofa's armrest, and had hit the bookcase on the way down!)
What a resourceful and competent child!! You'll have to learn to make your showers shorter! Ha, totally just kidding. Or you could tie her to something. Paul laughed really hard when I told him.
You could try what I used when babysitting my brothers...put them in their jacket, zip it up, but don't put their arms through the sleeves :) It works...for a little while, some how they always manage to wiggle out--much like the figuring out of the "child-proof" caps!
I have to say, I really enjoyed your narrative! Since I've been there in the past with 4 little mischief-makers, (2 of them in the above mentioned straight jackets)it was nice to be able to laugh at someone else's child's doings! At least you didn't have to round up the syrup of ipakak (sp?)like we did after one of Carissa's escapades!
Why on earth would you take a shower unless A) your child was with you in the shower or B) she was locked in her high chair with an activity to do!?! She's only 2 year's old!!!
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