She Did What?

I no longer have the ability to say that my sweet, mild mannered, compliant, three-year-old has never purposely destroyed anything in our home. On Sunday afternoon Jeremy went to wake Alyssa from a nap when he found her on the floor, sleeping away in the midst of a huge pile of items that had been stored in a tidy little white basket on the top of her dresser. We thought it was well out of reach for someone who's only three feet tall. Little did we know her capabilities as a monkey-like climber. She was able to grab the basket and pull it and it's contents down to the carpet. From there she proceeded to take the Baby Vick's and spread it all over her adorable pink with white polka-dots rug. Then she found those little baby nail scissors! What harm could those do, right? They have the rounded edges and can barely even cut her nails half the time. They're just not that sharp. Well, I guess they're sharp enough to make little tiny cuts up and down one of the panel of her sheer white/polka dotted curtains. Was it the polka dots? Maybe that's what inspired her to attack both the curtains and the rug. She did tell me later she wanted her dots from her curtains. So...maybe she was trying to cut one out?! Who knows! All we do know is we finally have one of THOSE stories to tell as Alyssa grows up about her sometimes mischevious nature. I guess I should be happy that she got past her third birthday before an episode like this took place! :)