Miriam has such a creative mind. She thinks very much "outside the box" and wants to try out all her ideas. She wants to take apart the blinds because she likes the circles at the bottom. She wants to put putty in water just to see what happens. She has even disassembled books so she can put the pages in a different order! Usually her experiments are interesting for her, frustrating for me, and generally harmless.Recently I was making dinner for a neighbor who recently had a baby when Miriam calls to me from her room. She tells me she has a gem in her nose. I am not at all pleased with this announcement. I need to get this food down the street in half an hour, Jack is out of town, and a 4:30 trip to the doctor's office is not in the schedule! I had her blow her nose to see if it would come out, and of course it didn't. Then she tells me, "Wait!" and reaches into her nose and gets the offending gem. Whew! We had a nice talk about not putting things in your nose after that...
I don't think it is possible for me to remove all potential trouble items from Miriam's reach. Will she ever learn to use things properly?
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Anna stuck a beebee up her nose last summer--just days after the swimming incident--nearly gave me a heart attack. Luckily, one of those blue nose suckers the hospital gives you for newborns did the trick.
Seriously, what goes through their minds?
She sounds very curious and creative... maybe she will be an engineer or an inventor one day!
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