Ara has been on a mission to prove to us that our baby proofing efforts no long apply to her!
In her room she has a dresser for her clothes and a second plastic dresser for pajamas and diaper changing supplies. Last week I put her down for a nap and after about a half hour of silence I hear her adorable little voice singing songs. She does that sometimes to fall back asleep so I wasn't concerned I let her sing thinking she would be a sleeping angel again in no time. I was wrong so very wrong. She did quiet down, but instead of sleeping like I assumed, she was exploring her room in the dark.
She called out to me about an hour later and as I opened the door I was surprised to find her standing there. I reached out to her before turning on the light and when I touched her hair I recoiled! I flipped the light switch and saw a strange sight. I said, "Ara, what is this all over you?". Then I looked into the room... the first thing I noticed was the pile of cotton balls on her bed. Then the pile of wipes next to her bed. Then the diaper drawer standing open with a smattering of diapers around it. Finally I noticed the diaper cream tube at the center of a very gooey white mess. I looked back down at Ara and she smiled.
She looked proudly at her work and told me, "Making-ed a snow man!".
She was absolutely covered in diaper cream, her hair was stiff and sticking straight up, her arms were white, even the inside of her nostrils! I guided her to the kitchen sink where I started to undress her, all the while trying (unsuccessfully) to not become covered in white myself. When I pulled down her diaper I discovered that it was full of poop and that the containment barrier had broken! So there I am, my shirt covered in diaper cream, my hands smeared with poop. My daughter is in an even worse state and I just had to laugh a little. What amazing havoc a small person can cause.
I washed her hair 5 times, it still felt all stiff and weird and smelled very strange. She complained loudly while I cleaned it out of her ears and nose. The cream itself refuses to come out of her clothes and the smell is probably permanent in her bedroom carpet.
My only regret is that I didn't take a picture.
And, yes we did remove all diaper related items from her room!
She also recently discovered that toy boxes can be emptied, turned over, and used as ladders to reach things up high.
She can climb anything but she especially likes to climb all of the ladders (otherwise know as bookshelves) around the house.
She can open doors now.
She can reach all of the old places we use to put things she shouldn't have! So now those things are so high even I can't reach them half the time!
The list goes on and on. Sometimes I long for the pre-crawling days where she would stay right where you put her! Mostly, though I am in awe at her development and although I try not to show it, I am amused by her catastrophes.
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