As Jax gets older (and more mobile), he is therefore destined to get into more things. I've been trying to use this to my advantage, by placing toys at his level for him to access at any time, or opening "safe" kitchen cupboards for him to unpack while I cook.
It made me remember an incident at Christmas that I don't want to forget.
My niece, Piper is two. She is delightfully loving, busy, and into everything. She can climb almost any piece of furniture, and open any bag. So if you want your purse or backpack to be "safe" from her inquisitive fingers, you have to put it on top of the highest shelf in the room.
I learned this lesson the hard way (as did Piper). I left my purse on the kitchen island, which is bar height, with bar stools. Piper climbed up the bar stools and onto the island to explore my purse. My phone was with me, or I'm sure that would have been her first choice. As it was, she instead went for a bottle of capsules in my purse.
My sister Tabitha, Piper's mommy, discovered Piper with my purse open, things everywhere, and powder from open capsules on her lips. She only slightly paniced, restraining herself while calling frantically for me, to find out what her daughter had consumed. I arrived at the scene to hear Piper saying, "Spicy!!!"
The capsules were ginger root, dried and ground and capsulized. I keep them with me to help with digestion. Good thing for Piper I don't take any medicines, and the only things in my purse and pill box are various herbs and spices. The worst she got out of trying to eat the pills in my purse was the bitter, spicy taste of ginger.
Yum.
Also, we wore this outfit weeks ago when it was still winter here. I'm not sure whether to pity the Americans still stuck in the blustery drudges of winter, or the south Texans who are grimly welcoming summer in February.
