Rookie mistake – not checking on your 2.5 year old the microsecond she goes suspiciously quiet… sigh… I only have myself to blame.
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I turned my back yesterday and Freddy scribbled all over my dining room table with black Sharpie marker. You’d have thought I’d be wise to toddler’s tricks by now!!
ha ha, oh dear! I have one of those too – thankfully my rice is out of reach
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Ooops! She does look soooo sweet though!
Inside the Wendy House: LOL! They always manage to catch you out, don’t they???
Helen: I thought I’d be safe, as the rice is kept in those lockable airtight storage containers, but she worked out how to flick open the catches within moments!!
Windmill Tales: I know – I actually let her play with it for a little while, as she was having so much fun!! I quickly shut down the rice games when she started chucking it about like confetti though… LOL!
Silence is the worst sound of all in this household.
Looks like she had a great time though!
have you hidden all the boxes of tissues/packs of wipes yet? or has she done that already?!
That seems to be a hazardous corner. I recognise it from the bowl of chocolate cake batter and the chocolatey face.
Awww, cute picture!! Yep, it’s always a bit scary when it goes quiet. Another one in our house is when I’m in one room and I hear a little voice in the next room saying “Look at me mummy!”
Hee hee, chuckle snort, – the joys of being a Mummy to a lil Monkey – our lovely Lucia. Obviously v-e-r-y intelligent, gets that from her paternal grand-father LOL
Oops I meant grandfather on her Mummy’s side, can’t speak for the other side altho I’m sure your Daddy is very intelligent too 8=)
Here is the same.
Silence can only mean 2 things, she’s up to something or she fell asleep, usually she is up to something.
lol, the silence thing is oh so true. Silence always equals trouble (unless they’re sleeping ;p)