Okay, after a long absence I am back! The reason I've been away? Hope. She's suddenly realized that she's almost 2 and has decided that until now my life has been way too uneventful.
Here's an example from today...
Picture this:
I'm sitting downstairs having just settled Grace after a feeding. Hope has gone upstairs to (presumably) play in her room, something she is allowed to do. When I suddenly hear banging and yelling from upstairs, I automatically think "Hope has shut herself in a room - likely Grace's." I head upstairs to let her out, but when I get up there I notice Grace's door is open. I check the other doors - all open. It slowly dawns on me that the noise is coming from Hope's bathroom, and she's yelling "it's hot! it's hot!" I get in there to discover the following: Hope, naked from the waist down, in her bathtub (having brought a stool in the help her climb in), turning the water on and off. Unfortunately she doesn't know how to adjust temperature, hence the "it's hot!"
I asked her what she was doing, she responds "I bath!"
It took nearly 45 minutes to convince her to get out (and to stop laughing)... looks like she's learned something new, and also looks like I'm going to have to invest in door handle locks for the bathrooms...
Oh Hope, how I love you.
