Mischief Maker

Here are some notes I wrote in my phone to remember Lucia The Toddler:

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Lucia doesn't want to eat dinner I made for her tonight.  I put four different things in front of her, one after the other. When she turned them all down, I finally decided she must not be hungry and let her down to play.

Five minutes later, I find her licking a meat package she pulled out of the recycle bin.

When I return from taking the recycling out to the bin, her mouth and both fists are full of cat food.

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Every day, I put a new dishtowel on my oven handlebar.  I used to use one dishtowel for several days, but recently they've been disappearing minutes after I hang them up.  I blamed Hub at first, because he, not being the one to do the household laundry, tends to be very hamper-happy.  He denied the accusation.

This morning, I caught Lucia snatching the towel from its place, holding one corner on either shoulder, and running laps around the house with her cape trailing out behind her.

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I buckled Lucia in her high chair and left her at the counter with a string cheese.  I returned very shortly afterwords to find her somehow eating yogurt with a comb.

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Today Lucia got around the backyard gate.  I chased her to the end of the driveway, but she was too quick for me.  Her naked baby-butt made it half way up the sidewalk before I caught up with her.

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Things Lucia would rather eat than the cheese omelette I made her for breakfast this morning:

Cat food (obviously)
The hair off the lego girls
Another meat tray from the recycle.  Styrofoam this time.
A tiny screw of unknown origin
A cherry pit she picked up off the pool deck
Deadly nightshade
Wood chips
A live bumble bee

I know that I should be keeping her pacifier away from her at all times except sleep times, but it's such an effective method for plugging one of Lucia's most troublesome holes!  She doesn't try to eat deadly plants or stinging insects when she's got her bink.  And whenever she doesn't have it, she's a broken record: "Binky? Binky? Binky? Gaga? Binky?"  

I've been succumbing more than I should.

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When people ask me how my daughters are different, I tell them, "Elsie never put anything in the toilet.  Lucia puts EVERYTHING in the toilet."


She's certainly keeping me busy this summer!