• Remove Duplo Box

• Remove Rocking Chair

• Remove Anything Not Fixed to the Ground

When I was pregnant, folks asked what gender my husband and I were hoping for: “Oh, I don’t care, as long as the bebe’s healthy . . . and not a lump.” See, I didn’t want a boring kid. I had this fear that I would get a child who was boring and weepy and clingy, and for an IndependentWoman such as myself, that would be like a death wish.

I got what I asked for.

Since before JJ was born, he’s never stopped moving. Kickboxing during staff meetings, dancing antics at 11pm when I was trying to fall asleep: he liked the nightlife; he’s liked to boogy. As a baby he wasn’t weepy but yowly: must be out – must be socializing – why can’t this stupid infant body get me where I want to go?!!?

Each developmental stage has had its new set of challenges. First, move things off of the floor for when he started rolling. Then move things higher for when he started crawling. Take a camping picnic table and shove it in the stairwell when he started climbing. Child locks – rubberbands around the tv cabinet – doors that are to REMAIN SHUT AT ALL TIMES (the bathroom – home of the ever popular plunger, his scepter of choice).

But he still finds ways to climb every mountain . . . or couch . . . or bed . . .

The Grand’rents got him some Big Fat Legos for Christmas: he prefers to empty the container, push it down the stairs, and use it as a stool in the kitchen so as to steal hot fresh cookies.

The Grand’rents stripped and refinished a rocking chair that’s been in the family for three generations; he prefers to push it around to turn the lights and the overhead fan on . . . cause you know: it’s so tropical in February. He also used it to get *onto* the window sill.

Yesterday when we went to the Hubby’s relatives, we picked up a coffee table from them because a) it’d be nice to have something in the living room and 2) it was cheap. However, what we didn’t know is that we were buying JJ’s newest platform: he can now give State of the Union speeches to all his peeps in proper form.

The minimalist look is in this year, yes? Do you think I could get away with storing all the furniture and having people sit on mats? Devine Design would approve, yes? Please . . .

Mama Musings