Thursday, December 8, 2011

OCD

My daughter is OCD.  I ... uh ... have no idea where she gets it from ...

She is an obsessive door closer.  I suppose it's better than being an obsessive door opener?  She always has to close all the doors in the house, no matter whether she and I are on the same side or not.

This afternoon she went upstairs and shut herself in our bedroom.  Typical. The lights were off, so I left her alone for about 5 minutes and then went to make sure she wasn't getting into too much trouble.  This is what I found: 

In the split second before I turned the light on and she sat bolt upright, she had been snuggled down in our bed, playing with her hair and sucking on her tongue.  I was sure glad I hadn't bothered to fold those clothes yet ...

Of course first question that popped into my head was, "how in the world did she get up on the bed"?  She's been trying for weeks now, but our bed is preeeeetty high.  Turns out (as she proudly demonstrated for me at least 3 times while I folded the aforementioned laundry) she climbs up on Ben's nightstand, and then bunny hops from there up on to the bed.

She is one smart little cookie.  I guess nowhere is safe any longer.

2 comments:

Austin Stevenson Owens said...

So adorable!

Alison said...

OCD=Obsessive Closer Door?
Your Dad is an "OLE" Obsessive Light Extinguisher. Anytime, anywhere in the house we are likely to be left in the dark. Maybe Lydia gets the obsessive trait from her grandpa.