Trouble

I am now convinced that Harrison's middle name should be legally changed to Trouble. Why? Let me count the ways...

It seems like every time we turn around Harrison is growing again. In the past month, he grew an inch, and is now 36 inches tall. Great, right? Not so much. Why? Because he can reach EVERYTHING. Seriously. We can hardly keep anything on the kitchen counters anymore because if it looks even remotely interesting Harrison is going to grab it. If he can't reach it, he pulls himself up on the counter and will try to use his "tools" to reach it--he has actually gotten a long plastic spoon out of a drawer and used it to try and pull something on the counter toward him. Crafty little guy!


I think I posted back a few months ago when we had put locks on some of the inside doors--places like the pantry and laundry room got door handles from guest bathrooms so that we could keep Harrison from getting into trouble in there. Well, earlier this week all three of us were in the kitchen before breakfast just goofing around. Harrison walked over to the pantry, looked at us, and just turned the lock on the door handle and opened it. The grin on his face was at least a mile wide! He just laughed and opened the door and started grabbing at things on the shelves. Ugh!!!


As if that weren't enough, he has also learned how to plug things into outlets this week. He has a little heater in his room, and he now enjoys pulling the plug out of the wall, looking at you with a big grin, and plugging it right back into the outlet. Really? Is that a skill a not-even-two-year-old kid needs to have? I think not.



And then to top it all off, he is just about able to open the deadbolts on our doors to the outside. He knows what to do, he just isn't quite strong enough to muscle the lock all the way around. I guess we'll just have to put some sort of additional deadbolt or something way up at the top of the door now, or change them over to keyed locks. Once he can get this open freedom is just a step away, and he is not at all afraid to open that door and RUN!


But, along with all of this craftiness is coming loads of fun. Harrison loves to play hide and seek, and will now go hide when we tell him to. He's not the best at hiding yet, and still sometimes thinks that we can't see him if he just closes his eyes. But, that just makes it all the more fun.