At Wit's End!
Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 09:04:30 AM PDT
It's 13 degrees (Farenheit) here today. My daughter and I have been sick with a bad cold since the weekend, so time outside has been pretty limited. This morning I was catching up on some work while my daughter was watching "Big Big World" on PBS, and I heard her say that she needed to wash her hands. So I went in to the living room and found her covered in brown goo...when I asked where she got it, she said the couch. Sure enough a tube of my lip gloss was on the couch and she had squirted it out and bathed herself in it. I suppose under normal circumstances I'd find this funny (if it hadn't involved my favorite lip gloss which is now gone or my new couch which is brown for a good reason, but, still new), but I don't feel good, and this is just the latest in a string of Avery-finds-something-then-smears-it-all-over.
Do I finally have to baby-proof my house for my almost-3-year old?? In the span of ONE week she's:
*Unlocked the back door and went out in the snow in her slippers
*Found and devoured 3 chocolates I had hidden on the dining table, seriously not visible. I had just quickly cleaned out my purse and had them left over from my last day of Polish Class.
*Climbed up on my desk and took my Tums, then ate a few before we caught her
*Reached up to the top of her changing table and found her baby Vicks, smeared the ENTIRE jar all over herself, her hair, and her bedroom.
We finally got the Vicks out of her hair completely yesterday, and now the lip gloss will be the next challenge (soap and water took 10 minutes to get it off of her face and hands).
I know this all has to do with her age and being cooped up for a week. I'm just not good at figuring out ways to keep her occupied all day indoors. Yesterday it was 36 so we went out to enjoy the "nice" day at the zoo. Doing a craft would last about 30 minutes tops, so do any of you creative and resourceful mothers have any tips? I'm still sick so I am running on low energy, but I'm open to ideas!
