lunamoth
Episcopalian
This is a thread for parents. Actually, this thread is an excuse for me to type out my rant about chasing my two and half year old all day long.
First, she is very fast. And she plans her escapades and times them to when my attention is elsewhere (sometimes online! imagine that!). In under one minute she can run into the bathroom, slam the door and lock it, remove the toilet paper from the holder and put the whole roll into the toilet.
In under three minutes she can climb her play kitchen, climb the outside part of our stairs to about the seventh step, climb to the top of our library cart (actually just used for collecting shoes and bags by our door), push a chair over to the sink, fill two cups with water and dump at least one on the floor. Note that I am following right behind her undoing each life-threatening move and she's off to the next before I've recovered.
Today, during her "nap" she emptied all of her laundry basket all over the room so she could use the overturned basket to get to the top of her upright dresser, throw everything off the top onto the floor, open up her moisturizer cream, spread that all over herself and the room, open up her diaper wipes and use all of them (about 50) to "clean" the moisturizer...
Making dinner is a riot, it goes like this: open the refrigerator, slam it shut to bring Ella back in from the garage, open the refrigerator again and reach for the green beans, slam it shut and run to get Ella out of the driveway where she has run in her socks and taken all the rest of her other clothes off. Put Ella on the floor next to me with a toy. Get out a colander, go help Ella put the juice back in the refrigerator and close the door and then run to take away the sharp knives Ella has taken out of the drawer while I closed the refrigerator...
Between running after Ella and not being able to get a meal on the table we are all losing weight in our family. I believe she is part monkey and part gazelle. Should I just let her climb and hope we don't end up in the emergency room?
First, she is very fast. And she plans her escapades and times them to when my attention is elsewhere (sometimes online! imagine that!). In under one minute she can run into the bathroom, slam the door and lock it, remove the toilet paper from the holder and put the whole roll into the toilet.
In under three minutes she can climb her play kitchen, climb the outside part of our stairs to about the seventh step, climb to the top of our library cart (actually just used for collecting shoes and bags by our door), push a chair over to the sink, fill two cups with water and dump at least one on the floor. Note that I am following right behind her undoing each life-threatening move and she's off to the next before I've recovered.
Today, during her "nap" she emptied all of her laundry basket all over the room so she could use the overturned basket to get to the top of her upright dresser, throw everything off the top onto the floor, open up her moisturizer cream, spread that all over herself and the room, open up her diaper wipes and use all of them (about 50) to "clean" the moisturizer...
Making dinner is a riot, it goes like this: open the refrigerator, slam it shut to bring Ella back in from the garage, open the refrigerator again and reach for the green beans, slam it shut and run to get Ella out of the driveway where she has run in her socks and taken all the rest of her other clothes off. Put Ella on the floor next to me with a toy. Get out a colander, go help Ella put the juice back in the refrigerator and close the door and then run to take away the sharp knives Ella has taken out of the drawer while I closed the refrigerator...
Between running after Ella and not being able to get a meal on the table we are all losing weight in our family. I believe she is part monkey and part gazelle. Should I just let her climb and hope we don't end up in the emergency room?