Our 15 month old daredevil

Lauren turned 15 months old yesterday. And she's become quite the little daredevil. She climbs on anything that looks like it should be climbed on. One of her most recent ventures is to go in the back bedroom, remove the toy basket, climb on the tote, then climb on the box and flip the light switch. Daddy caught her doing it the other day when he knew that neither of us were back there but the light switch was turning on and off. Great. So this is what we found:

Startled look when the camera flash went off in the dark catching her:

Lights on, "Oh it's just you mommy. Look what I can do!"

And once again the lights go out.


She finds items throughout the house to climb on, or push/carry to an area to help her climb on other items. Like daddy's boots if turned sideways help to give her leverage to climb on the couch. Or her sit and push car makes an awfully good step to climb on the coffee table. Or heck with it, let's just take our baby's stroller and stand on the tray in the middle of the living room. Yes, the little pink on that she got for her baby doll with 4 rollers for her birthday. Heaven help us. That has broken bones written all over it.

She's also mastered the stairs, according to her at both grandparents' houses. Found her upstairs at both of them having a GRAND time! At Grandma and Grandpa's she was staring over the railing, which we have a baby gate now. And at Nana and Papa's she was causing havoc in the bathroom, which somehow the baby gate was opened (she's a little houdini...said that ever since she mastered getting out of the tight wrap jobs by the nurses at the hospital!).

I realize her hair is quite stunning in these pictures! It's getting sooooo long that it's taking mommy some time to figure out what works. If you put a barrett in, she just takes it out. The top pony tail works, but then that's the only way to fix it until bath time because if you take it out she has a mowhawk. And it's so straight on top but completely curly in the back....you know "business in the front, party in the back" like a mullet. And heaven help her if she needs to sit still to have her hair done. You'd think that I was torturing her!! So for the most part, if we don't have to leave the house, this is how she rolls during the day. Oh well. Sooner than later it will grow out.