Dallin the Menace

I left Dallin in the bathroom while I went into my closet to get ready to get in the shower. My closet in connected to my bathroom, so he was out of my sight for maybe 30 seconds at the most. I walk back into the bathroom and Dallin is gone. Panic...My heart starts racing and I scream out his name (I'm a little melodramatic so I immediately thought someone had come into my house and stolen my baby.) I hurry out into the hallway and there is Dallin sitting on the tile floor looking at me like, "What's the big deal mom." I quickly assess the situation- Dallin is holding a piece of glass, nail polish is all over my tile (luckily yellow not red so that my mind didn't jump immediately to blood), and glass is all around him. (Heart racing, breath) I took the piece of glass away, and rush him to the bathroom to start checking him over for cuts. Meanwhile, Dallin's sticky, nail polished covered hands are grabbing at my neck and sticking to my hair. Ok, luckily there were no cuts or any injuries. Next step...washing Dallin down with fingernail polish remover. Dallin really, I only left you for 30 seconds!!!

Well, the situation could have been a lot worse. Instead, Dallin and I are using nail polish remover as a body wash and my tile is clean and sparkling (from where I might have missed some drops of yellow nail polish) and also smelling like nail polish remover. If you see me without toe nail polish it is because my nail polish is now stored on the highest shelf in my closet where only a ladder can reach it, and I may be too lazy to get it down.

Here is the list of messes/catastrophes my adorable one year old menace has made:
1. Cell phone thrown into the baby pool full of water
2. Objects that should not be getting wet thrown into my bucket of soapy water (Dallin woke up from his nap early and I hadn't finished cleaning the bathrooms. I thought I could hurry and finish while he played with toys near me. Never again!)
3. Hand soap container thrown onto the floor and spilling soap (luckily it was also on tile so that part of my bathroom is really clean.)
4. Dropping the bottle of dishwasher soap on Zane's stomach while he was trying to fix the drain on the sink (Dallin was trying to show off his good aim and strong muscles.)
5. Climbing up on the flour and wheat buckets in order to pull down cereal from a higher shelf dumping it on the floor
6. Climbing on the dishwasher while I try to fill it, opening up the dishwasher container where the paci's are kept, and pulling one out (This one I actually think is brilliant because he sees me putting his paci into the dishwasher and figures out a way to get it back out again!)
7. Putting teaspoons or anything close by into the mixer while I'm trying to bake something
8. Spilling flour everywhere as he tries to "help" with the baking
And this was just this weekend!

Lessons I have learned:
Dallin is learning some knew skills. He can climb, reach, move objects around in order to find things that I thought were hidden in the back of a cabinet, and pretty much find a way to get anything that I do not want him to get into. I thought my house was baby proof. It now needs to become one year old proof!

Is this normal for a one year old little boy????

Climbing up

There it is, my paci!