Menace

Amanda has reached a whole new level of trouble. She has figured out how to stand up. I'm telling you, I've tried to prevent all this from happened, but unfortunately she keep developing exactly how she's supposed to. Boy was I spoiled with Sarah's inability to go anywhere. Awww, I'm just kidding. I love that she's moving all about, but things have gotten a little more challenging.

When she was just crawling, and she's still doing that too, all we had to do was make sure nothing was on the floor. You know, like the carpet strings, ha ha. But basically, we just had to make sure the kids picked up their little toys and we swept under the table after meals. Well, we're still working on that last one. Now that she can pull up, there's all these other things she can reach. Like the magazines on the coffee table, oh how she loves to pull those down and rip them to pieces, and the DVR and the CD player. I'm pretty sure she's recorded a few shows of her own pushing all the buttons on the front of the DVR.

The worst part of all, and really not for me but more for the kids, is that she has more access to their stuff. By stuff I really mean their computer games. The other day Andy was playing something on the computer. Amanda crawled up, stood up next to him and started banging on the keyboard. Unfortunately for him he was playing a game that used the keyboard instead of the mouse. The next thing I heard was "Mom, Amanda made me lose my game."

I knew that as she got older she would start doing things to bug them and they wouldn't be as excited about her, I just didn't think it would happen quite so soon. They love to play with her, but they like it to be on their terms. Now they know how I feel most of the time.