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ok well i'm going to get cyber-looks for this, but i was unloading groceries on our counter and i pulled one of the bags off the counter and by accident knocked a huge knife off with it. i was going to pick it up after i finished putting things in the fridge and LO was with DH in her room. next thing i know, i turn to pick up the knife and LO had silently crawled over to it and picked it up in her hands. i yelped and took it away from her as quickly and as carefully as possible. DH came running and gave me the dirtiest look. sigh. bad mommy.

This is my deepest, darkest, mommy shame ...

When DD was 14 months old we went upstairs and I thought I closed the gate but it must not have clicked. I was preoccupied with laundry or something while she toddled around. In a split second she pushed on the gate, it popped opened and she started to fall down the steps. Luckily our staircase is curved and she grasped for the railings which slowed her fall in time for me to grab her up after falling four or so steps. She had a huge bump on her head and I literally couldn't stop crying all night. But bottom line it could have been waaaaaay worse.

@SleepyMonkey: I learned the hard way once J could reach the counter by leaving a knife too close to the edge he had never been tall enough until then.