Trouble

I'd like to begin this post mentioning Kate's 1-year check up appointment.  It's been a few weeks ago now since I've taken her, but I don't recall commenting on it.  Dr. Massey said she looks great and all seems to be well.  Joe was unable to make it to this appointment, for which he owes me BIG, considering she had FOUR shots.  She was not happy with me by the time we left the doctor's office.  Needles have never bothered me.  I can sit and watch as it goes right into my arm and not bat an eye.  But I sure hate having to watch her get one.  And we have to go back in 2 weeks for a flu shot booster.  Ugh.  She weighed 24 lbs. and was a whopping 31" long...97th percentile for length!!!  From where she gets off being tall is beyond me!
We've had an interesting past few days with Kate.  Her curiosity is at an all-time high and she is into EVERYTHING.  The term "baby-proofing" has taken on a whole new meaning in our household.  Just this past Wednesday we were over at Will's house and playing in his room, where I was bragging on Kate to my sister about how she hasn't chewed on the crib like Will has, and how we hadn't had to go buy those gummy crib rail covers.  Well, what does she do on Thursday, the VERY NEXT DAY?!  Kathryn calls me at work and tells me that she has been gnawing on her crib all day.  I got home from work and walked into her room with her to check out the crib and yep, she got it pretty good.  She did more damage to her crib in one day than Will did to his over a few weeks of gnawing on it.  The dark finish from the crib was all over the place, including on her face.  It looked like a woodchuck had gotten a hold to that poor crib.  I just looked at it with her and asked her, "What did you do?  That wasn't a very good girl, was it?" while she looked up at me and just smiled and laughed while pointing at the crib.  Hmmm.....not good. Like I said, TROUBLE.  I called Joe and had him run by Babies-R-Us on the way home to get the gummy covers to put over the rails.  I haven't noticed her trying to chew on the rails again.

Then, the very next day, Kate discovered the stairs at my sister's house.  She has never expressed even the least bit of interest in our stairs, nor in Kelly's, so this one took us all by surprise.  But a-climbin' she went and thankfully Kathryn got her in time before she was able to take any tumbles.  Today we were over at Will's house and I told Kate, "Show Mommy how you climbed those stairs."  And off she went, right on up!  Oh my.  My baby gate has been in the garage the past few weeks...guess it's time to break it on out.  

She's also getting into the whole kitchen cabinet and drawer thing.  I figured the little cabinet door locks would be enough, but we have a good number of drawers in our kitchen as well and she seems to be more into those.  So, it's back to Babies-R-Us to find the locks for the drawers.  

We've had a great weekend so far, but missing Joe/Daddy.  He left yesterday to go be with Beverly as she recuperates from her knee surgery.  He'll be home this evening.  This morning we went to the playground with Will.  I figured since she loved climbing those stairs so much maybe she would also love climbing on the jungle gym at the playground.  Hmmm....not so much just yet.  This is SUCH a fun age...they are so funny to watch.  We laugh a lot!  But it's also a very busy age...we have to be right there for every step because you never know what they're going to get in to next.