Thursday, June 18, 2009

stairway to disaster.....

so casey has learned the art of climbing.......she tries to climb up on anything and everything......most recently she's figured out that if she stands onto the warming drawer handle on our oven and holds onto the oven door handle she can reach the stove knobs and the grates over the burners on the stovetop.......lovely......we bought a stove guard to prevent any major disasters but because nothing is ever that easy, the strip on the oven that it's supposed to adhere to should ideally be flat but thanks to the "innovative" design of our stove, ours is slanted, thus attaching it the way the directions suggest make the angle of the thing too close to the burner and it's going to melt in a matter of days.......so still working on trying to make that work......and she's also climbing on our dining room table chairs......until today i've managed to keep that under control, but this morning when i literally turned my back for 1 minute, the huge crash i heard was her falling down and the chair falling on top of her.......really sounds worse than it was - but still frightening.......didn't stop her from trying it again this afternoon......short term memory man.......anyway.......i know she needs to learn how to climb.......it's part of growing up, but i just wish all these new stages weren't so dangerous at first!!.......

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