The Borrowers

Lately, the babies have been acquiring things from around the house that NOBODY can figure out how they managed to find.

Last week, Kian walked up to me and handed me a bottle of the hardshell chocolate syrup that is supposed to be put on icecream.

Thankfully, he did not figure out how to open that bottle, or it could have had a rather messy ending!

Then there was the theft and seeming disapearance of several cups that had been set out to dry along the back of the kitchen counter.

The cups, along with several water glasses, were found on the dining room table after I had returned from a potty break.

I had returned only to discover that, in the thirty seconds I was gone, a tea party had been quickly put together.

They had even moved all of the chairs from along the wall and set them at the table and had just climbed up to start having some imaginary "Tea" out of those contraband cups and glasses when I found them.

Today, I heard funny noises coming from the darkened kitchen.

When I went in there to see what the matter was, I discovered that Kai had managed to pull himself up using only his upper arm strength and was hanging by his elbows from the counter-top.

He was busily passing the things that he had discovered on the counter down to his sister and brother.

Vivienne was the proud owner of a nice new plastic coat-hanger, while Kian had scored himself a package of stickers that had been set aside from a kid's meal last week from Cane's.

Kaiden was very sad because he had set his sights on having Bregon's plastic skull mug and I apparently had thwarted his borrowing efforts.

Apparently, NOTHING is safe in my kitchen anymore! They have even figured out how to stick their tiny arms into the small openings left after the cabinets had been locked down with those outside latches and have been quite successful at borrowing things in that manner, too!

In fact, the latches that hold the cabinets in the living room have long since been breached by tiny arms, allowing access to such things as video games, old vhs tapes, and even dvd's!

Apparently, short of screwing everything shut, there isn't any way to keep them out of the cabinets or off of my countertops anymore!

Whatever shall I do? I suppose I should start boxing everything up, but what will I cook with, or what will we watch?

We have to have dishes and cups and silverware and such, but I really don't want to keep finding borrowed objects that may prove dangerous, in the toy boxes or in the playhouse!

I suppose I will have to find a new solution to my problems. I know that several of us already have found several parenting uses for duct-tape (yes several of us triplet mums have been forced to resort to taping diapers shut to keep them on our kids as of late.)

Maybe duct-tape has more uses for our kids than just diapering, who knows!