Julia's crib, and Madeleine climbs

Yesterday, Julia decided to make herself a crib by laying two chairs on their backs, leg to leg. I was pretty impressed with her creation, and apparently she was too, as she proclaimed excitedly, "This is concredible!" Here she is playing in her crib:



Unfortunately, her game was short-lived, since Madeleine came crawling over, completely fascinated with Julia's creation, and pulled herself up on the chair seat and them proceeded to push the "crib" around like a walker. I told Julia that some day when Madeleine is in HER crib napping, we can make Julia's crib again and she can play uninterrupted.

The chair-crib is not the only source of Madeleine's mischief. We're currently at Yia-yia's house for a visit, and the girls have been playing with toys in her play room. There is an abundance of great, age-appropriate toys for Madeleine to play with, so of course, what does she wind up doing over and over again?:







Up the slide over and over, then back down head-first (of course.) She did play with some of the great toddler toys that Yia-yia has, but for the most part, she preferred the slide, the stairs, the fireplace, and the wires and cords attached to various outlets. Yeah, I have basically come to realize that it doesn't matter how many toys are around. She will inevitably find the most dangerous, kid-inappropriate item and beeline to it.