New Habits

Sarah has picked up a couple of new habits lately, one of which makes a lot more work for me to do. She loves opening cabinets and drawers. She loves taking books and school supplies off of the shelves. She will go from one room to the next leaving things all over the floor. I am constantly coming along behind her cleaning it up. I do have locks on the important doors that she must not open, but there are others that don't have dangerous things, just messy things...like crepe paper. She had rolled out two rolls of party crepe paper all over the floor when I walked into the kitchen today. She has figured out how to take the basket from her play kitchen into a room with her, flip it upside down, and use it as a step stool to reach things that she can't reach with her feet on the ground. We are having to watch her at all times. I caught her in the act of opening a drawer the other day.



If we surprise her, she will slam the drawer or door shut and give us a smile. After a long, hard day of getting into trouble, her other new habit just started yesterday. I was sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV. Usually, Sarah will sit on the couch beside us. Instead, she went over to the chair in our living room and took off the pillow and blanket there. For some reason, anything she sits on has to be free of all objects, no matter how comfortable they are. So the blanket and pillow came off. Then, she patted the chair until I put her in it. As soon as I sat her down, she leaned back and folded her arms over her tummy like she was lounging. I tried to sit down beside her and she started trying to push me out! Apparently, she liked having the whole thing to herself. So I went back to sitting on the couch and she leaned back against the chair again. Every few seconds, she would stand up in the chair, but as soon as I told her to sit down, she would sit and lean back again and put her hands back over her tummy.



When she saw me get out the camera, she took her hands off her tummy, but she is still leaning back a little bit in the above picture. I don't mind the relaxing habit at all, but I hope the destruction habit doesn't stick around too long!