would cause something so crazy like this?!?! My world was running smoothly. I had cleaned almost the entire house and was so proud that I wanted to make a batch of cookies. Unfortunately, I forgot one little thing. Riley has a fascination with hiding things in beds, the base speaker, toilets, drawers, pretty much anything that opens and yes the kitchen oven. Brandon and I have repeatedly told him that it is NOT an option to put things inside the oven. Just when I thought the message finally sunk in it obviously hadn't. I preheated my oven and noticed a plum of black smoke rising out of the boiler exhaust. Thinking that my oven was dying I turned it off and looked down to notice the flame inside my oven. Unlike the picture above, I used douses of water instead of baking soda. :p I ran around the house like a chicken with my head cut off opening windows, the front door, the garage door and gathering fans to circulate the smoke. My fear was having the alarm go off and the sprinklers dousing all of our things. While doing all of this I had to protect Riley as well and make sure he didn't go anywhere near the oven. When all was said a done I took inventory of what burned. Riley had shoved two hot pads (my favorite ones) and a rag on the oven coils. So instead of the sweet smell of cookies inside our warm house on a cold day of 8 degrees we spent 4 hours in a cold burnt smelling house with no cookies. :p At first I really wanted to cry, but I realized the humor of it all. Now I have a fun mommy story to share and the knowledge that children really do get into EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
