Why are kids so curious? I guess it is their way of learning, especially when their young. After all it isn’t like they can sit around and ready Tolstoy or an encyclopedia. Luke and our baby girl are always wanting to get into things or watch what we are doing. Many times they will cry when I leave the room, like I’m never coming back or something.
Before going to the basement I find myself explaining, “I’ll be right back…no crying…mommy has to switch laundry, we don’t want stinky clothes do we?” I’m not sure that the kids really get all that, Luke is usually fine. I think he has been around long enough that he knows I’m coming back. But with our baby girl I never know how she’ll react. She’ll either go over to the gate and peer around it, trying to watch me, while jabbering the whole time or she’ll start screaming and won’t stop until I come back.
One of the cutest times where both kids have been so curious started about a week ago. When I cook I have been putting the kids on what we call “baby lock down”. This is where I contain the kids to the living room with gates. One gate goes in the hallway and the larger gate goes between the kitchen and living room. I started doing this when cooking because of Luke’s new kitchen countertop cruising abilities (mentioned before) and our baby girl’s ability to get herself in trouble (pinching fingers or even burning them when putting them in small places near the oven).
Anyway, I put the kids in the living room and was cooking along when I heard both kids jabbering up a storm. I went to investigate and found that both of them stood up to the gate (which is a wonderful ability for Luke to now have) and were looking over, trying to figure out what I was doing. They were talking back and forth like they were debating what I was doing exactly, since they couldn’t see me real well from their view point. It was pretty cute.
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