I was sitting on the couch last night not paying much attention to anything, mostly lost in my own thoughts.
I looked up and I saw my 13 month old standing on the coffee table. I wondered, how did she get up there? Then I noticed she moved a foot stool over to the table, climbed on the step stool, and then onto the table. What a smart little girl we have.
Then I started thinking about how Maddy treks around the house "looking" for things. She looks everywhere. In the cabinets (the ones that do not need to be child proofed) in the closet, under the bed, up the stairs, outside, in and around bushes and other objects.
It made me think she was like a little Indiana Jones moving swiftly through the jungle looking for the one artifact that needed to be put into a museum.
However, the opposite does happen. A month or so ago, Maddy got a hold of my wifes cell phone. We haven't seen the phone since. Luckily, we had insurance and was able to replace it. We have never found the phone. We looked everywhere (at least we think so). I did notice that Maddy likes to put things into boxes and the trash can. We can only figure that Maddy decided that the cell phone was trash and it was emptied without anyone noticing it was in the trash.
Maddy also has three pairs of shoes. However one pair has one shoe missing. Something else we can't seem to find. Who knows where it ended up. I gave up looking for it weeks ago.
Maddy is quite the little explorer. I often laugh how curious she is about things. If she is not in true harms way, I let her figure it out for herself. There are times I do help her. We are all trying to train her to get DOWN the stairs. However we have a little gate up now that helps the climbing up part.
Yesterday, Maddy came out of the kitchen with two handfuls of 3x3 gauze pads. I still don't know where she found them. This morning, she had my wifes bra over her head and walking around yelling about something. It was quite a site.
Yes, she is quite the explorer, and it seems like she is quite the talker as well. She talks nonstop some days. Other days she is a little more reserved. She always has something to say, even though you don't want to hear it. I wonder where she got that trait from?
