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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies
The other day I was extracting a sponge from underneath the sink when I heard a muffled gurgle coming from the direction of the fridge. When I'd looked two seconds previously, Nolan had been chewing on a rubber toy by my feet so I was surprised to see that he'd moved so extraordinarily fast across the room. The rapid fire speed potential of an exploring baby always floors me. I took a step toward him to investigate; he had the fridge door open and I was about to sigh and admonish him when the gurgle turned to a high pitched cry turned into a wail.
I looked in alarm at what he'd just been into: the hot sauce. Nolan had just drank fiery jalapeno hot sauce.
So it's apparently time to do some further houseproofing. One of my blog readers left me a comment with a link here and a note saying "these saved my life."
I am going to get some this weekend, because I'm thinking they just might save Nolan's.
He's a wily one though, so I'll let you know if they work.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
8-13-2006 @ 10:57AM
thordora said...I would hope that maybe that learned him a lesson. It made me gag, that's for sure.
I'm lucky neither of mine showed much interest in opening the fridge, but others have told me the fridge locks do work.
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8-13-2006 @ 1:06PM
Diana Keller said...I use these for my 2y/o and they are a lifesaver, or at least a sanity saver! I even got one for the sitters house, my son only goes there occationally, but will go get out the milk, or whatever looks good to him and bring it to you, or just leave it anywhere! I LOVE refrigerator locks!
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8-13-2006 @ 1:36PM
Ginny said...For some reason, my fridge is pretty hard to open, so when my two were too small to know what was good to eat, they were too weak to open it. YAY for the defective fridge. (And, not, it's not stuck closed with gunk...lol)
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8-13-2006 @ 2:41PM
ann adams said...That's good news. I could use it for my big girls who now stand in front of the open door suffering from refrigerator blindness. Somehow they never can find anything to eat (or anything to wear).
The youngest is 10 so I can count on 8 more years of it.
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