Phase DANGER!!!

Seems like our kids are always in some kind of a phase. These phases go almost as quickly as they come. There's a phase for everything it seems...a sleeping great phase, a bombing the morning nap phase, a I just discovered I have hands phase, a put everything I touch in my mouth phase. Well, Emma Grace and Jack have both happened to enter the same phase at the same time. I really hope it's just a phase and will pass really quickly. I call it "phase DANGER!!!!"

For Jack, it invloves his ability to crawl and climb. He can go just about anywhere he wants and he does. He's climbed the stairs several times while we were looking the other way. He has tumbled down a stair or two but we have no major injuries to date...

For Emma Grace, the problem lies in the fact that her abilities are far greater than her common sense. Her physical abilities matched with her crazy personality and her 2 year old reasoning makes for a diaster waiting to happen. This phase just came upon us out of nowhere. In the past week, here are a few things she's done that might help you see what I mean about the "abilities>common sense=disaster" formula.

She somehow reached up on a cabinet, grabbed a candle, extinguished it, and filled the candle with water from the water cooler.

She got scissors from Andy's desk and began cutting one of Andy's books.

She undressed herself and got in the sink to give herself a "sink bath."

She came running to me and said "what is this?" She had found a string of unused firecrackers on the ground.

She cleaned her hands with all purpose cleaner. Guess she took the "all purpose" thing seriously.

In all seriousness, I've been praying a lot for her lately. Please join me. I am hoping her common sense will catch up to her physical abilities really soon!!!!