Innocent Mischief

Oaklen is still my little munchie. If you remember last year, I had to get a fridge lock for Oaklen since he kept getting into the fridge. Now he knows how to open it and I am always catching him helping himself to food. Luckily there hasn't been too much damage, but he's just so funny.

Here are some recent stories -
Eggs in dough - A week ago I had made some pizza dough and had leftovers so I put the dough in the fridge. The next day I put it on the counter (in a bowl) to let rise again. Oaklen got the eggs out of the fridge, got the stool and successfully cracked 3 eggs into the dough. When I got to him he was poking the dough and trying to mix it. Since some dough recipes call for eggs, I just kneaded the eggs into the dough with more flour and made calzones.

Granola Bar - During general conference on Saturday I got out our 72-hr kits to rotate our food. I decided that we only needed to rotate the snack packs and the peaches and to leave the rest in the kits. Today I was vacuuming and when I was done I saw that Oaklen had gotten into Salem's 72-hr kit and eaten the granola bar.

Cheese - He and I were upstairs reading a book, when we finished he said "Mom, now you go somewhere." I wondered what he was up to, but I decided to obey his wishes and go help Ezril for a moment. He jetted downstairs, got in the fridge, and took out the block of cheddar cheese. By the time I got to him there were perfect teeth marks in the block of cheese. He said "I'm eating cheese mommy!"

String Cheese - Yesterday morning he woke me up and he had string cheese in each of his hands. He's able to open them but he still hasn't figured out how to push the wrapper down. He ends up just sticking his finger in until he can't reach the cheese anymore then asks me for help. He woke me up just for that reason.

Egg on the counter - Friday morning he rushed downstairs and got out the eggs. There was one egg cracked on the table. I was able to salvage it and cook it, I'm thankful for that.

Strawberries - We were at my mom's house and were going to eat fresh strawberries for dessert. The container of strawberries was out on the counter but we were going to wait a little bit before washing and preparing them. His cousin Megan was looking at the the strawberries to get them but she didn't get them. A few minutes later we turned to look and Oaklen had opened the container and was already on his second strawberry. We told him that we needed to wash and prepare them first and that he would get to eat them very soon!

Whipping Cream - I had a half-full container of whipping cream in the fridge, Oaklen thought it was a carton of milk. One morning he came downstairs minutes before Darrell did, and got out the whipping cream and a straw and started drinking it. He quickly learned that it wasn't milk! See picture below: