Sunday, February 13, 2011

Child Proofing

Just when you think you've child-proofed enough, you find yourself proven wrong. It's never been an issue. Locking the toilet?
When E is gone, and I take a shower, I lock Mills in the bedroom/bathroom with me. His norm is to stay in front of the shower door or sit in the floor and watch TV. I stick my head out every few seconds just to make sure he is okay and not getting into something. There isn't anything in the bedroom that he can get into and all cabinets in the bathroom are latched.
E was out of town and as I was taking a shower on Wednesday of last week I felt the water pressure decrease. I looked out, and what do you know...Mills has learned to flush the toilet. He can also lift the lid on it...so I found out. I scolded him and he came over to stand beside the shower door. He was grinning. I went about my business.
The next day, I couldn't find the remote to the fan in our bedroom. I didn't think anything about it until I went to flush our toilet and it started filling up as if it wanted to overflow. It did not overflow, and the water went down, but did not fill up like normal.
Several hours went by after plunging the thing. I started putting two and two together. Could Mills have flushed our remote down the toilet? Well, if he did, it is long gone by now. We have looked everywhere for it and it is nowhere to be found. The toilet, after several flushes, finally got rid of what was causing trouble.

We are now the proud owners of this ridiculous contraption:






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1 comment:

Elizabeth said...

HA! I just hope you do not get in a bind and forget it is there!