For a long time, we’ve known that Shira does not understand fear. She just isn’t put off by anything. Fortunately, she normally does things in front of us and so she’s only fallen off the chair once onto her head.

Last week, we put her in her bed for her afternoon nap. She didn’t actually want to sleep so after going in to her twice, we ended up putting her into the cot as a punishment. That should have been the end of it. On that day, it wasn’t. About half an hour after putting her in the cot, I heard a little voice saying, “Daddy… daddy… daddy.” Grrr. I got up from my work and stomped into the bedroom to find out what was going on. Shira had taken her nappy off and was wanting to be changed. However, it wasn’t quite that simple. She had climbed out of her cot up onto the set of drawers with the change mat on top and then taken her nappy off.

After being suitably annoyed at her and putting her nappy back on and putting her back into the cot, I told Ruth. We were both impressed at her climbing and escaping abilities.

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