Today's Word of the Day...

Today's word of the day is stop, get down, don't climb on that, put that down, and oh shit.

It's amazing how quickly milestones go from being celebrated to dreaded. In today's gremlin news, my daughter has figured out how to pull herself up. It's almost like watching one of those extreme mountain climbers. You know, the kind who have no ropes or tools, just a pocket of gripping chalk. Just as they do, my daughter finds the smallest nooks and crannies to pull herself up.

Prime example: Electric plug covers

Now who in the hell would suspect that a baby would be able to pull up on the cover that goes over the plugs in the wall? There are two stools over at the bar. She put her hand around the leg of the stool to lift up off the ground to her knees, and somehow gripped the socket cover and used that to pull all the way up. By the time I got to her, she was standing up flat against the wall crying for me to lower her back to the ground.

So now I find myself working on my speech to the child protective service people. Oh, how did she manage to get up on the ceiling light fixture in the first place? Well, that's a funny story...