Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Great moments in parenting

Somewhat surprisingly since we're usually pretty good about keeping medicine out of reach, the other day Mädchen somehow grabbed ahold of her bottle of infant ibuprofen (she seems to have a rougher time with teething than some kids, and since she seems to be perpetually teething, we go through the stuff pretty quickly). We saw her walking away with it but didn't immediately lunge after her because of course it has a child-proof cap--when all of a sudden she looked at us and started laughing with pride because she had somehow figured how to get the cap off. Thankfully we saw the whole thing unfolding and got it away before she tried to swallow any of it, but this doesn't necessarily bode well...it's hard enough keeping things out of her reach now that she's getting so much taller, but we're at a real loss if she can actually figure out how to open supposedly childproof bottles...