Ben, like most toddlers, is naturally curious. Over the past several months his naptime has turned into quiet time or room time which means it's more common for him to spend the time playing in his room than actually getting any rest. One result of this is that he now has more unsupervised time in his room.
For a while a favorite hobby of his was unplugging his fan and finding other things to plug in to that outlet. These things were appropriate things, like a heating pad or a lamp, so at least he wasn't trying to stick a fork in them or something, but it still made us very nervous. Unplugging the fan and replacing it with an outlet cover only had limited success in preventing this.
His adeptness at plugging things in was demonstrated very clearly one morning at playgroup. Mindy told me that the mom whose house they were at had unplugged the battery from the little electric jeep that the kids were driving around. This was to prevent anymore inadvertant backing over other playmates, but was very sad for all the kids there. A little while later they saw Ben with his head under the hood of the jeep and when Mindy commented on this to the other mom, she reassured her by saying "That's really hard, I doubt he'll be able to get it plugged in." She hadn't even finished the sentence when they were brought up short by the sound of the jeep motoring across the yard with Ben behind the wheel...
That's my boy!
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