What goes up...
Gravity? Milk? Nah, can't be milk, in the early days that's a case of what goes down must come back up.
So what's our latest worry?
Stairs. "But you've been worried about the boy climbing stairs for a while" I hear you cry.
True.
He has been climbing for a while. Even did it on his own one night last week, MOTS was making tea, I was reading the paper (headlines only, don't get time to read the small print), had the back turned for a minute or so, heard a little voice, and he was at the top of the steps stood in the open gate looking back down and shouting to be picked up. He now scales the stairs unaided. UNAIDED. More folicals disappear never to be seen again. I can't afford them. I have very few left. I need to look after the ones I have still got.
The gate at the top is a pressure gate, not a screw-in, so it has the bar across the floor. I don't like the bar, but I prefer the pressure gates so that's what we have. It also gives the boy something to treat as a line which should not be crossed without being picked up, which works quite well.
Until yesterday.
5 minutes from London City Airport, the pilot comes on - "We are now starting our descent". Well, that pilot was boy wonder yesterday. He began his descent, and once he'd started didn't stop until the engines were stopped and the seatbelt signs turned off.
So, what goes up, must come down. Super fresco didn't make it easier, he's not Graham or Brown.
Comments
Sounds very scary Lee! We don't have stairs which helps keep us sane. Of course, our children may enter adult life unable to use stairs but that will just be funny rather than scary :-)
Posted by: Dave Morrow | November 26, 2007 1:51 PM
Hope you and Deborah are OK No point in asking if fearless is OK. Hope he is though
Posted by: Doris | November 27, 2007 12:09 PM
And now we're on full on descent - at HIGH speed.
Fearless? Aye, that'd be right.
Posted by: Lee | January 14, 2008 8:19 PM