When I hung them on the wall, I used a level because they were going to be stuck there and I would hate for them to be stuck crooked. Win, Win. Straight pictures. Safe child.
Safe on this front at least. After I finished re-hanging all the frames–now immovable, I walked in the kitchen and found this:
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my 2 1/2 year old’s favorite place is standing IN my bottom desk drawer watching what i’m doing. she’s even been know to put a stool in the drawer and stand on that…til i catch her, at least. good luck! it’s all such an adventure! ~m
Can’t argue there….we think she’s too cute for words!
i’ve never commented here before, but that last picture just melts my heart (even though she’s being naughty). her little baby feet! her pink jammies!! so cute.
I was trying to get away with no baby locks in the kitchen. We have a lock on the cabinet doors under the sink with all the cleaning supplies, but she really hasn’t been very interested in the kitchen drawers and cabinets since we moved. Occasionally she’ll pull out the tupperware. No big. But now that she has started this opening drawers, empty them, climb them thing—it’s only a matter of time before she opens that very top drawer and grabs a knife. I’m thinking the knife drawer now definitely needs a lock….like yesterday.
Greta….WHO THINKS OF THIS!!!!!????/ Kids are insane. Brinley climbed ALL the way into her highchair. Oh my gosh that scared me to death. Why do ALL things that they aren’t supposed to touch or “think” of, happen. Thankfully, Brinley has been told NO so many times with touching our router and cable box on the end table in our front room that she hardly ever touches it. If anything, she touches it with her toes while sitting on the top of the couch. I know just to annoy me. Of course right? Do you not want to put baby locks on your drawers??