Houdini
Lately some strange things have been happening. Sunday, after JJ’s nap (hooray for 9:00 church!) Dustin discovered him playing with toys in his room. Dustin asked if I’d taken the boy out of his crib and left him in his room. No, I said, I thought you were in there with him and took him out. He hadn’t either. We didn’t hear a thing–no crash, no tears, just playing. I kept asking myself if I could have gone in there and forgotten. No, I don’t think so. Uh oh.
Today, JJ was playing in the sink with his measuring cup (he asked for it, he likes the handle) and pouring water back and forth. I was nursing Cameron. After a while, I looked in and noticed JJ was playing with the sifter. Did I sift anything today? Yeah right. I kept racking my brain—could it have fallen out when I got the measuring cup out of the cabinet above the counter? I don’t think so. The real crazy part was that the cabinet door was closed. He had to have climbed on the counter, gotten it out and shut the cabinet door and gotten back on the chair. Can he do that? I guess he knows better than to let me see him doing this.
Maybe you’ll have to set up some hidden cameras to catch your little Houdini in action! Those stories are hilarious, at least to someone whose toddler hasn’t reached those capabilities nor achieved that type of stealth yet.
About the 9 am church schedule, I hear ya! Ours used to be at noon. We were scheduled to switch to the 2pm – 5pm slot, but one of the 4 wards meeting at that location got relocated to another chapel. So now we’re at 9 am, too! It has made for a probably much smoother transition into nursery than it otherwise would have been. What group of toddlers is at their best, awake, ready to learn and play from 3:15 – 5:00 pm? I can’t think of any!
Uh-oh!
My dad likes to remind me that I used to climb all sorts of places, and once he rescued me from the back fence – I was maybe 3 or 4 and straddling the fence with my feet stuck in between the boards, working my way across the yard. That may show where Houdini gets his talent…