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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Cookie Scissorhands

One of Cookie's favorite things these days are scissors. We've carefully taught her how to hold and use her child's "safety" scissors, and drilled her on the dangers of scissors and what we can and cannot do with scissors.

Yesterday, we allowed her to sit at the kitchen table and cut up paper while we supervised her. Apparently, I became too apathetic in my supervision, and in the 5.3 seconds that I did not have my eyes on her, she silently slipped into the livingroom and...

cut up several pieces of mail
cut the nipple off Bit-Bit's pacifier !!??!!
cut several pages in the textbook I teach out of, AND
cut a hole in the front of the dress she was wearing

All that and she did NOT get spanked. Frankly, we had to turn away for fear she would see us laughing. It was he-larious. Poor Bit-Bit. At least we have spare pacifiers.

She did get a FIRM talking to, and the scissors got taken away. But we had to wait until we could do it without cracking up.

5 comments:

JUST A MOM said...

they do make some that ONLY cute paper your lucky she did not get hair....

Julie said...

I AM SO GLAD SHE DIDN'T GET HER HAIR! OR BIT BIT'S!!! I am about to cut paci's to see if it will steer G away from them. She will be 2 soon and I told her they disappear at 2!! :) I guess that 5.2 seconds was too long! heheheee. I go with 2.8. :)

KrazyMom said...

It is amazing what lightening speed they move at when they know you are not watching! Maybe she was just trying to help Bit-bit break the habit! Thanks for the chuckle!

Ms. J said...

Hee hee -- I was waiting to hear that she cut her sister's hair!

Seriously, a few years ago I remember hearing about a woman who sat 2 yr old son in front of the t.v. with markers and paper while her infant napped in his carrier. The mother went into the kitchen to wash a few dishes. She came back into the room because it was too quiet and found . . . her 2 yr old had colored his baby brother's head a lovely shade of blue!!! (And they weren't the washable markers, LMAO!)

SD said...

Funny! They move like the speed of light! Good thing no haircuts happened!