Here Comes Trouble

From 2010 July

We picked this shirt as Nicholas' Bermuda souvenir shirt because of the cool looking shark, but it turns out it was very appropriate. Nicholas has transformed into a complete monster! And by monster I mean toddler.

The first problem is that he now walks/runs around the apartment at will. The second problem is that he thinks that opening and closing doors is more fun than any of his toys. The third problem is that he thinks it is funny when we say "no" or are mad at him and laughs and then keeps doing whatever we were trying to get him to stop doing.

As far as doors, so far he has no interest in what is inside cabinets, but he slams them with force and without paying attention to whether his fingers (or his face) are in the way. This is a little problematic. I think putting latches on each of the couple dozen cabinet doors in our little apartment may just drive us all crazy so I think the plan for now is to start keeping our bedroom and bathroom doors closed and put latches on the couple cabinets with dangerous stuff inside. And if he smashes his fingers inside the other cabinet doors . . . well, he'll learn eventually, right?

Yes, here comes trouble indeed.