Cookie Thief

I was just in the process of putting all of our kitchen stuff away, and making very good progress, when I saw a live one. A big one. How depressing. So I decided to share some more cute recent pictures of William, since he's so cute.

A few days ago I found William trying to open up this zippered bag of animal crackers that was on the shelf in the dining room. I think he eventually got it open while I was watching him, so I put him in his high chair and let him eat a few.

He's really been enjoying playing with whatever he can reach on that white shelf, and since I moved the dishes off of it and into the kitchen a couple of days ago, I haven't been too worried about letting him play there.

So this morning I turned on TLC and started watching a show about flipping houses. William crawled over to shelf and started playing, so I figured I'd let him play for a while as I watched the show. After a little bit I realized he was being really quiet over there. Too quiet, if you know what I mean (I didn't think the time of having to worry about it being "too quiet" would come this soon!). So I go to check it out, and here's what I find:


Haha! If you look closely at the picture above you will be able to count at least 3 cookies/cookie pieces in his mouth, as well as one in each hand! He found the box of animal crackers that was apparently within his reach on the shelf and dumped it all out and started eating them as fast as he could. Seriously, once he saw that he was caught in the act, his reaction was to start eating the cookies as fast as he could before I took them all away.


If you look closely you can see the cookie dust from the bottom of the bag all over his leg from when he dumped the bag. What you can't see is the pile of cookies he's sitting on. Maybe he was trying to save them for later. It was pretty darn cute. And of course I probably should have told him that dumping cookies on the floor was not a good thing to do, but instead I ran to get the camera! And I'm glad I did, he's freaking cute.

And now this last picture is just a visual explanation of why it's so hard to clip William's fingernails and toenails:
So, if you ever look at him and think his nails are too long, don't judge me! It's nearly impossible to clip his nails without him grabbing the clippers away. I've tried giving him other distractions, but it doesn't work... I actually was able to clip a few the other night by giving him these white baby clippers to play with while I clipped his nails with the regular ones.