My Daughter Climbed a Ladder

My daughter climbed a ladder the other day.

She is just shy of 20 months old but apparently she believed she was ready climb a ladder. I know, terrible parenting. My mother in law was repainting some walls in the dining room when this occurred. Hours and hours she was working on this project, moving the ladder six inches at a time across the floor. My little girl watched her go up and down, up and down this ladder while playing with some blocks in the room over. Occasionally she would push herself up and hobble over to watch her grandmother (we call her Tilly) go up and down, up and down. My daughter has always been observant so we didn’t think twice about her watching Tilly go up and down the ladder. It was family dinner night so my wife and I were in the kitchen. Adjacent to the dining room, cooking with the rest of the family when Tilly shouted the words that sends parents scrambling to see what is happening.

“Get down from there!”

“Oh boy” I thought to myself.

“No, I don’t think so, g…