After the previous half and half incident in the kitchen I decided we really needed a lock for the fridge. Seth just loves to hang out in the kitchen while I'm upstairs distracted with doing school with the other two. He loves to empty my drawers and get food out of the fridge. I have found half eaten apples now in three different places, all well hidden and starting to rot. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more. So, the lock was working great, a bit of a pain for those of us wanting to get in there but it was doable. Anything to keep Seth out of the fridge. Well, he would have none of that. A few days later I came upstairs after my shower to see that he had helped himself to the cereal and poured a nice pile on the couch. I just sighed and cleaned it up and got on with the day. The next day I came home from scouts to see that he had again gotten into the pantry and dragged up a box of cereal AND a bowl and decided to pour himself a bowl of cereal in the family room. And not just a bowl but a few piles of cereal here and there. Grrrrr!!! I didn't have time to clean it up, I was in a hurry to get Nate and I out the door for karate. After a long night at the dojo I had forgotten about the cereal. Amazingly, no one else noticed it and bothered to clean it up. I can't blame Rob, he hadn't gone upstairs the whole time I was gone. As I was sitting at the table I saw Seth push a chair over to the counter, grab the bread, and proceed to help himself to a slice. At that point I was too tired to care and figured he must be hungry he could have a piece of bread. Didn't think anymore of it. The next morning (yesterday) there was the piece of bread on the stairs with one bite taken out of it. Kids had been running up and down the stairs all morning and, again, no one bothered to pick it up and throw it away. The rest of the morning and evening (nap time was sweet relief yesterday) was spent chasing Seth out of the kitchen and putting back everything he took out or keeping him from trying to climb the stove while I was cooking. Couldn't take it anymore, called Rob at work and we met up and Babies R Us and we picked up one of the really long gates. Rob installed it last night.
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I am over here dying with laughter. I think all families have gone thru this before. It gets really old really fast when nobody can see these things but you. I hope your gate works longer than our gate worked.
I hope the gate lasts, too. After watching Elizabeth try and pry it open and force it shut I'm getting a little nervous :)
Yes, I am laughing too. He is your curious one isn't he? Shows intellegience. I am wondering if we shoudl take bets on how long it takes for him to figure out how to go over it. My pediatrician told me she had to put two gates, one on top of the other!
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