Since Kate started crawling, she's been less and less interested in using her walker, which is really a good thing for me, because she was starting to get too good at maneuvering it to get to things she shouldn't have. One day a couple of weeks ago, we came home from a get-together with friends and I left a tote bag full of Kate's things on the kitchen floor. On the top of the pile of things in the bag was a sandwich bag full of Cheerios. I put Kate in her walker while I listened to some answering machine messages, and after about a minute, I heard this strange scattering noise in the kitchen. This turns out to be the sound of about 100 Cheerios hitting the hardwood floor.

She had used the walker to position herself to snatch the bag of Cheerios off the top of the pile, opened it up and shaken them all out of the bag. So she could get a better look at them or something. What kills me about this is that I know she is perfectly capable of just reaching into the bag and taking a few Cheerios out to eat. But why would she want to do that when she can make a spectacular mess by flinging them all over the floor? Not to mention the trail of Cheerio dust she left in her wake when she then rolled over them with her walker.

Yes, I think her driving privileges are officially revoked.