Monday, October 15, 2007

Super Poor or Cleaning the Refrigerator?












Background Information -

David has learned how to open the refrigerator. It's actually one of his favorite things to do. He loves it when we ask him to open the refrigerator for us and he loves to make it into a game to see who is watching when he opens the refrigerator when he knows he's not supposed to.

The Incident -

Saturday night David woke up about 1am. He got out of his bed and crawled up to footboard into our bed. Then he got down, went back to his room and grabbed his white bear and climbed back into our bed. He slept with us the rest of the night. At least that is how I remember things going.

What Actually Happened -

All of the above is true, however at some point David went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. I don't know what he was looking for or if he just needed light I don't know. As is David's custom he didn't close the door because we weren't there reminding him to close the door.

The Result -

When I woke up in the morning David did too. We walked into the kitchen to get the usual cup of milk (for David). What do I find....the refrigerator door opened and everything is hot. I went back into the bedroom and told Dustin to get up. I spent Sunday morning emptying the refrigerator of all its contents and throwing 99% of it away. I filled the trash can 1 1/2 times. The milk had actually started to curdle. We were able to save a few things like the raisins, dried currants, an apple, some lettuce, the string cheese, butter, homemade shake and bake mix and the coconut. I made up some powdered milk so that I could use if for the "cooking" I had to do.

We were supposed to have our neighbors over for dinner but most of the ingredients we needed were in the refrigerator because we had just bought them Saturday evening. We ended eating dinner over at their house instead. The refrigerator is now held closed with a bungie cord so that if David opens the door he can only open it 2-3 inches before it swings shut.

Ah, the joys of parenthood.

2 comments:

valumama said...

What a bummer! that is so funny. Kelly was saying you just figured out who she is from Story time and Sterling's sister. She actually put it together when she saw you briefly after that first Pampered Chef show down there, funny that she never clued you into that :)... oh well. So you saw her baby pictures, Nowlenn is pretty adorable huh.
Well, have fun grocery shopping (tee hee hee.)

Tamie said...

jeeze! that is funny in its own right, but not funny financially. so sorry about that one. thankfully jack is still in his crib, or pehaps we might have that problem some morning, who knows? :)