You'd Think They Couldn't. . .But They Can!

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This blog was inspired by my darling 4 year old imp. I mean daughter. I realize that this is the baby blog, but just bear with me for a few more sentences and you'll soon see where I'm going.

Today Meghan took a self created bubble bath. I say 'self created' because we don't have bubble bath. I was, however, doing some laundry by hand in the bathroom (we, like most of New York City, make due with just one bathroom) and apparently a smelly mixture of Downy and Tide makes quite the bubble bath. She cried when it started to sting, I shook my head in dismay and thought, "But how did she get that in there?" And we rinsed. Who knew that Downy plus Tide was so hard to rinse?

Then my mind flashed back to the safety scissors incidents. (Note that I said incidents and not incident.) Did you know safety scissors cut hair? I didn't. Until Elizabeth (my oldest) cut her hair at the age of 'just barely' 3. To fix it, she had to sport a Joan of Arc look for quite awhile. I just shook my head in dismay and said, "Who'd have thought she could get to those?" They were after all, on top of a shelf that I thought was too high. They were up there prior to all the other various hair cuts my children have given each other too.

There's also the day that my twins, at 18 mos. decided to make cookies. . .on the floor. . .by themselves. To do this they had to work together, to reach the sugar that was high up, and then one cracked eggs while one stirred.

There's the time Laura fell from the loft bed. The loft bed that is behind the child safety gate. Apparently, that doesn't keep things as safe as I had thought. There's the time we discovered that babies begin rolling over on the very day that you're convinced that they can't roll. You know, the day you leave them 'there' for just a second knowing they won't go anywhere. But then they do.

So parents, take this advice to heart. Whenever you're about to put something down, or leave the baby somewhere and you think, "This should be fine, surely they can't. . ." Stop and remind yourself that they really, really can.

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Hello everybody! My name is Valorie and I am one busy lady! When I'm not writing or editing for families, I am busy trying to get my brood of 5 in line.

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