Dora’s Got Nothin’ On My Explorer

Bean is such a busy little person these days. She has become quite the little explorer. I thought I would share with you just how she spends her day…

At eleven months, she is cruising around the furniture quite nicely. She will go anywhere as long as she has something to hold on to. Mostly she just goes around the coffee table.

She has learned to open the drawers on the coffee table and end tables. She is very nosey curious so she opens them about 15,000 times a day a lot. I try to fuss at her for it but she just laughs at me and goes on her merry way.

I get on her and tell her not to mess with the drawer on the coffee table so she moves on to explore other drawers.

She isn’t allowed to play with those nail clippers. Yes, I know that the drawer on the end table is probably not the best place to store nail clippers but I’m usually in the den when I decide that she needs her nails trimmed and I’m too lazy to walk to the other end of the house to the nursery to retrieve the nail clippers. So, at our house we store nail clippers in the drawer of the end table in the den. Okay? Moving along then…

See, I thought if I cleaned out the drawers so there was nothing for her to mess with, she’d lose interest and leave them alone. I was wrong….

Her new favorite pastime? Watching television while standing in the drawer. She thought I had left the room. She likes to act like she’s not doing anything out of the ordinary when I catch her in the drawer.

“Oh, hey Mommy! What’s up? Nothing to see here, just a well behaved Bean.”

Then it begins. She climbs in the drawer within five seconds of being taken out of it. We do this five or six times and then she moves on…..until I leave the room. When I come back, I find this: