Clap Your Hands If You Believe in Fairies!

I am sure that by now, everyone is quite familiar with my latest toddler trio problem - CLIMBING!

Why, it was just last week that I discovered Kian hanging out inside the bottom oven, Kaiden swinging from the dining room chandelier and Vivienne swinging her legs as they dangled from the back of my sofa where she had perched herself.

I thought that I had figured out a way to stop the climbing from happening for the most part.

I have moved every chair away from the dining room table and positioned them along the walls of the dining room and living room.

I even moved the one that was supposed to be designated for the homework table that is in the living room corner.

I had thought that the one that was basically useless unless you pull the table away from the wall would be safe and immune to baby-climbing.

Oh, boy was I mistaken! I heard crying coming from the living room while I was in the bedroom trying to fold laundry and put it away in the dresser drawers.

I ran into the living room to see what the matter was, only to find Kaiden sitting in the center of the homework table, stuck as can be.

I helped him get down off of the table and comforted him until he lost interest and ran to play with his brother in the play-corner.

I had thought it might be safe to go back to my laundry by this time. After all, they looked content to play with the books in the corner at the moment.

I barely had the time to put a few pair of socks away before I heard a crash and more crying coming from the living room, AGAIN.

This time, I knew what the matter was. Kaiden had climbed BACK up onto that table and had managed to knock the one thing that is actually ON the table, off of it.

This time, Kian was also trying desperately to fit into the tiny space that his brother had managed to fit into to try and climb up as well.

The babies were okay, but Vivienne was busy crying her tiny eyes out, pointing at the picture that her brother had knocked off of the table.

It is the very large, very tall painting of an angel playing a lyre. Vivienne calls it her "Fairy," and is very attached to it.

I removed Kaiden from the table, pryed a very stuck Kian out from between the table and the climbing chair where he was wedged, and picked up Vivienne to try and calm her down.

All she could do was cry and sniffle and say, "Fairy hurt" over and over again.

The bottom of the frame had come apart at its seam, but other than that the painting was fine. Vivienne just did not believe me, though.

The only way I could get her to stop crying, was to sit her on the edge of the chair facing the table, and tell her that we could "Save" the fairy by clapping our hands.

So, there we were, all three of my babies, sitting all in a row, with Vivienne in the middle, enthusiastically clapping our hands because we believe in our"Fairy."

Mother used to always tell us not to put our elbows on the table while we were eating because every time we did so, it would kill a fairy...

So, every time we accidentally did find our elbow's on the table, we would clap our hands to make that ailing fairy, "Better."

I couldn't think of anything else to do at the time, so I decided to give the old remedy a try.

Apparently, clapping our hands did the trick, because all of the babies seemed to feel better, and Vivienne stopped crying.

As for the Fairy in her frame, I am not sure how she feels as she appears to only "Talk" to Vivienne.

Who knew? I can assure you though, that tonight, after husband gets home from work, he will definitely be mending the "Fairy" frame so that Vivienne will find a mended picture and very well Fairy to say, "Good morning" to, when she gets up for her breakfast in the morning!