Troy has become obsessed with closing the baby gates on the stairs. I used to worry that he’d try to go upstairs without us, but he doesn’t. If he finds the gate open, then he closes it with a loud, resounding clang!
Some mornings, he’ll go straight to the stairs to check the gate before anything else. It’s like he doesn’t trust me to keep things safe, so he has to follow around behind me. Most nights I’ll leave them open just in case he has a bad night, and I have to walk him up and down the stairs. It’s not that easy to open the gate when your arms are full of toddler.
But it’s really annoying when I’m going up and down to haul stuff to the attic, and after every trip, Troy will shut the gate behind me. And when I come back down, he’ll shut it again. I have to constantly set things down to reopen the gate before proceeding through. And then two steps up, I hear a loud, resounding clang behind me. Followed by the retreating patter of little feet.
Some days he’ll be trying to close it WHILE I’m still coming through it. If I try to force my way through, then he’ll just push harder. Nonetheless, we always try to tell him thank you. Thank you for closing the gate, and thank you for keeping us all safe.
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