El VIVE!!!
I've been promising you all that I would tell you about L's near death experiences. These are just par for the course with a kid like him, I deal with near death on a daily basis. I'm going to be surprised if he lives to be 3 without killing himself or at the very least major brain damage!
Here in Chile the electrical is 220 not the 110 we are used to in the states. That being said we've been very careful to keep the kids away from the sockets and also have been very careful ourselves when plugging things in. In the living room we have a heater that is hooked up to an extension cord and the connection is right in the middle of the doors that overlook the patio. We've kept it hidden as much as possible and have made sure that L does not touch them. However the boy is a stealth Ninja and can do things right under the noses of 4 adults and we all have no idea he is doing it. The other day he was licking the connection...HELLO he could have really hurt himself.
Not only does the electrical scare me here but so do the stray dogs. Mostly they just ignore people unless you are giving out food but L wants to touch every one of them, and they are not really that friendly. I'm so afraid that they are going to bite his face off, we keep him on his leash at all times when out in public and still that does not stop him from trying to make friends with the local wildlife!
The ocean was also a source of concern for me, he would have been up to his neck in the surf if I had not held him back. The boy has NO FEAR!
A great example of his NO FEAR is the other day we lost him...5 grown adults and 3 older children in the house and we completely lost him. There's a fence around the property so I was pretty sure he hadn't learned to climb out (yet), and we had searched the house. I personally had searched upstairs in Penny and Daryl's room and did not find him and K had also searched and did not find him. At this point we had been looking for around 5-7 minutes and I finally alerted the other adults that he was nowhere to be found! We started calling for him outside because I thought well maybe he did find his way out of the fence and went down the road to catch at Colectiva (a taxi). K comes running in the house after we'd been searching for a few more minutes and screams that L is hanging out the 2nd story window. Sure enough he had been hiding behind Penny and Daryl's curtains in their bay window, had figured out how to open the window and was leaning out waving at K...chris and I have never moved so fast as we ran up the stairs to get him. He was pretty excited that he figured out how to open the window and even gave us a demonstration at dinner on the open and closed position of the lock!
I am thankful for the leash, I am thankful for baby gates (at home), I am thankful for good insurance, and I am thankful that he has not killed himself!
Today he is sporting a black eye that he gave himself while wielding a stick.
It's a wonder that El VIVE!!!
Here in Chile the electrical is 220 not the 110 we are used to in the states. That being said we've been very careful to keep the kids away from the sockets and also have been very careful ourselves when plugging things in. In the living room we have a heater that is hooked up to an extension cord and the connection is right in the middle of the doors that overlook the patio. We've kept it hidden as much as possible and have made sure that L does not touch them. However the boy is a stealth Ninja and can do things right under the noses of 4 adults and we all have no idea he is doing it. The other day he was licking the connection...HELLO he could have really hurt himself.
Not only does the electrical scare me here but so do the stray dogs. Mostly they just ignore people unless you are giving out food but L wants to touch every one of them, and they are not really that friendly. I'm so afraid that they are going to bite his face off, we keep him on his leash at all times when out in public and still that does not stop him from trying to make friends with the local wildlife!
The ocean was also a source of concern for me, he would have been up to his neck in the surf if I had not held him back. The boy has NO FEAR!
A great example of his NO FEAR is the other day we lost him...5 grown adults and 3 older children in the house and we completely lost him. There's a fence around the property so I was pretty sure he hadn't learned to climb out (yet), and we had searched the house. I personally had searched upstairs in Penny and Daryl's room and did not find him and K had also searched and did not find him. At this point we had been looking for around 5-7 minutes and I finally alerted the other adults that he was nowhere to be found! We started calling for him outside because I thought well maybe he did find his way out of the fence and went down the road to catch at Colectiva (a taxi). K comes running in the house after we'd been searching for a few more minutes and screams that L is hanging out the 2nd story window. Sure enough he had been hiding behind Penny and Daryl's curtains in their bay window, had figured out how to open the window and was leaning out waving at K...chris and I have never moved so fast as we ran up the stairs to get him. He was pretty excited that he figured out how to open the window and even gave us a demonstration at dinner on the open and closed position of the lock!
I am thankful for the leash, I am thankful for baby gates (at home), I am thankful for good insurance, and I am thankful that he has not killed himself!
Today he is sporting a black eye that he gave himself while wielding a stick.
It's a wonder that El VIVE!!!
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