Posted by Becky @ 8:09 pm Why I never take a shower
May 4, 2008 | Stuff
(Re-enactment for blogging purposes)
Why I never take a shower: Things like this happen.
While I lathered shampoo, my youngest walked in the bathroom with a package of chocolate-chip cookies in her arms. I thought, “Umm … didn’t I put that on the top shelf of the cupboard?”
Yep.
That’s my middle child in the photo. According to all three of them, she’s the one who got the cookies. Yipes. When did she get so tall? The pediatrician said she’s in the 90th percentile for height. Incredible for a preemie.
I thought it was the youngest who got the cookies. She’s also the smallest, which means she would have had to use the shelves as a ladder. (Trying not to think about the hard tile floor, her head cracking open and all the shelves crashing down … or some such.)
When she was in the bathroom — while I was showering, which for obvious reasons, I never do — she asked for help opening the package. I told her I needed a minute. In less than a minute she was gone. Apparently, she didn’t need my help.
She’s very resourceful.
See?
Chocolate chips all over the floor. Yeah, that feels great when they melt between your toes. But … chocolate smiles all around.
It could have been worse. They could have cut each other’s hair. Take it back! Take it back! I probably just jinxed myself. Excuse me while I round up all the scissors and lock them in the safe.
Posted by Becky @ 8:09 pm 
May 5th, 2008 at 7:52 am
*throws away all her scissors*
*puts all the cookies at ground level*
May 5th, 2008 at 9:54 am
LOL - at first I thought that was a picture of a kid climbing the fridge!
Mine does similar things. Nothing is safe.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Yikes! Your kids are becoming quite independent and their thought processes are quite good. The high chair as a step stool and a scissors to open the cookies and presto all is solved. But chocolate chips between the toes was a major goof! I vote with Sarah - Cookies at ground level!
May 5th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
(Re-enactment for blogging purposes)
LOL-That is great. What girls will do for chocolate chip cookies. :)
May 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Your daughter is a way more cooperative blog child than mine. I’ve got a “one take” kid and he’s a tough negotiator when it comes to using his likeness. I have a house full of Legos to prove it. In my house, I have to hide the tape. Free roaming tape ALWAYS ends up fastening random things to walls.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Wait. I’m confused. A middle child as a twin? Your b-day photos were so cute. SOOOO cute.
They will out maneuver you, always. Lemme tell ya. That’s when you let them believe, absolutely, that you HAVE EYES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:43 am
How resourceful! What a girl will do to get her chocolate.
We had self haircuts here. Thought I would have learned by the time the second child was here to lock up the scissors!
May 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I have shuddered when discovering items laying around that were way high up. The difference with my brood is that NO ONE fesses up. Lucky you to be able to re-enact the drama.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
the curse of parenthood.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
My twin granddaughters have done the scissors thing once or twice. Not sure what spurs it but so thankful they’ve not taken off an ear. :)
This so sound like the situations though that they put my daughter-in-law in. I wonder how she manages to spend any personal time, yet alone time in the bathroom.
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