how do kids DO that?

So my friend Staci is over today, with her kids, and we're watching the Santa Clause. Well, trying to watch it. The kids don't wanna watch it, but they don't wanna do anything else. Finally, they get bored and go into the dining room to play with blocks and gallop up and down the hall and pretend they are horses. *sigh* The movie's good, so Staci and I keep watching it; the kids play in the other room. However, soon it becomes quiet... too quiet, and STaci gets up to investigate. I hear a "Get out of there!!!!!", and "Aaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" (both from Staci), and get up to investigate. Comet (a household cleaner) is everywhere. It is in the cat's water dish, on the cat, on the towels, all over the floor, on top of all the canisters on the shelf, and the kids have totally innocent expressions on their faces.

"Did you eat that?" Staci asks.

"No," Cindy points to Mackenzi. Mackenzi shakes her head. *sigh* We look at the bottle, frantically looking for poison control info. It helpfully states, "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN."

Ah, yes, thank you for that helpful tidbit of information. What a gem. I told her to make her drink lots of water, just in case.

I THOUGHT the Comet WAS out of reach. Which makes me wonder how they got it off the high shelf. Wait. I don't want to know. I swear, I don't even have kids of my own, and my hair is going to be grey before I'm 30. It amazes me how you think your whole house is child-proof, and no matter how much thought and consideration you put into making it safe, the child finds something unsafe in a matter of minutes.

Hmmmm, there's a little holiday irony for you. We're watching the movie "Santa Clause", in which Santa has a reindeer named, of all things, Comet. And the kids get into a household cleaner, called, of all things... Comet. Hmmmm... Perhaps they thought if they sprinkled it on themselves, they could fly, too.

And then again, perhaps, I don't even want to go there.