The Sneak

Since Faith is little ( and by little I mean short), she has trouble reaching things up high. Of course, she doesn't realize that anything that is out of her reach has been put there for a reason. But does this deter Faith? Oh no siree, it just makes her want it even more. If I put one of the cat's turds up high, she'd ask me, "Whatcha doin' momma?" and I'd say, "Oh, I don't want you to have this turd, so I'm putting it up high so I can keep you safe." Then you can watch her as the wheels spin in her head trying to figure out how to get up there to get the turd.

Anyhow, she figured out before she was 2 years old that if she dragged the kitchen chair to the kitchen counter she can climb up and get to the hidden treasures ( honestly, we really only keep her vitamins and toothpaste up high..hell, even the kitchen knives are down lower than the vitamins and toothpaste..because as we all know you can get impaled by a stale vitamin, and we wouldn't want that to happen now would we?) So if any of us are upstairs and we hear the screeching sound of the chair being dragged across the kitchen tile, we know she's trying to get up onto the counters and into her toothpaste or vitamins. When we hear it we always say, "Faith , you better not do that." and she'll usually just admit defeat and take the chair back to the table. But on this particular day she pulled a fast one on me. I was upstairs and I hear the familar dragging sound of the chair being pulled across the kitchen tile, and before I can open my mouth she yells up to me, "Don't worry Momma, I'm not getting on the counter!"
Oh good grief, this girl is too smart for words!