Baby Continues Quest for Danger & Driving Mother to Insanity

So I come home from work and inform Stephen I have to go to the bathroom. On my way upstairs, I become distracted by the fact that all the windows in the house were closed. It's a gorgeous day for once, and no open windows - madness! While I'm opening windows, Asher follows me upstairs. I shout down to Stephen, look, I've really gotta go bad, you're going to have to watch him or something. Then I think I hear him get up off his butt downstairs, so I leave the room and conduct my business.

I come out of the bathroom and find the above. Baby sitting on top of desk, COMPLETELY unattended. No daddy to be found. What is not captured in this fine parenting moment is the fact that he had a large paperclip hanging out of his mouth, too. I was smart enough to yank that out of his mouth and yell at Stephen for not coming upstairs before snapping this shot. And his excuse? He thought I was taking Asher in the bathroom with me, and since Asher was completely silent during that time, he had no idea he was up here alone. Yeah, he was silent...BECAUSE HE WAS BUSY EATING PAPER CLIPS!

Can you just see the pure orneriness oozing out of this child's face? All I'm saying is, if you look up "stinker" in the dictionary, it's not a skunk's picture you'll find. I lost track of the number of times he climbed up on the desk this evening. And there's the climbing on top of the coffee table, out of the bathtub, on top of his toy basket...Evidently, we're in the climbing stage. Yippee.