Climbing

Well, the climbing went too far today.  Ugh. 

For those of you who don't know or haven't heard, Avery is climbing on and in EVERYTHING lately!  This includes on top of our dining room chairs and high top dining room table.  We have tried telling her no, we have removed her when she's been in the process of climbing, we have swatted her for climbing, we have tried to keep the chairs pushed in and the furniture in safe places so that if she does climb and/or fall, she'll stay safe.  We are at our wits end with the climbing!  Most of the time she's not doing anything bad or where she could get too hurt, but today she went too far and I was not a happy camper.

I went into the bathroom this morning to clean out some diapers and put them in the wet diaper bag.  I was only in there for a couple minutes, but when I came out, Avery was on the table.  Not only was she on top of our high top dining room table, but she was squatting on top of Michael's high school shadow box that Linda made for him and brought down this weekend (probably because standing on top of it put her just a little too high for comfort).  Not only was she on top of the table, on top of the shadow box, but she was drinking what was left of a can of Pepsi and spilling it all over the table and shadow box!!  Ugh!!!

So I got her down and began cleaning up.  I swatted her bottom for being up there.  I had to get after her twice not to try to climb up the chair again (and twice more since everything's been cleaned up and settled down).  I cleaned all the soda off the table, I cleaned the soda off the shadow box, and I took Avery's soda-covered clothes off of her.  Luckily Madison and Dayton were in decent moods while all of this was going down, so I could focus on getting things cleaned up instead of calming them down too.

Ugh!  That daughter of mine!  I love her dearly, but the climbing is getting out of hand.  This is why we like to take her to the mall and let her play in the playplace on Saturday mornings.  I'm glad that spring is almost here, we'll be spending a lot of time outdoors here soon!  I know she'll love getting messy at her sand and water table!  I think we all have a little cabin fever.  Bring on the spring and settle down the climbing!  *sigh*

Only 1.5 days until my vacation with my hubby begins.  Looking forward to rest, relaxation, sleeping in, and taking time to take care of myself.

Have a good one!  :)