Ella the furniture mover

Clearly Ella is considering a future in furniture removals, possibly some demolition as well. She spent weeks shifting her little chairs and table around the house constantly, to climb up on them and reach any surface in the house she liked - it drove me nuts and eventually I put the chairs away...

So now she's taken to shifting our dining chairs, making this horrendous grating screeching noise with them as they're dragged across the hard floor - I have had a headache for the last three days!! I kid you not. Not only is the noise driving me insane, but she can now reach everything she shouldn't touch - knives, any food that wasn't immediately put in the fridge or dishes not in the dishwasher (the dairy allergy is the issue here), makeup, kettle, sewing machine, any shelf or desk she likes, even the freakin oven top! Oh, and jewellery - which means that so far I'm missing a pearl earring and a diamond ring, and keep finding earrings inside my shoes. I'm at my wit's end with how to stop this, and I'm constantly telling her off and shifting chairs back, only to have her grab it again straight away - very grumpy mummy here. I'm being consistent about not letting her do it, so it seems she's always in trouble, which I hate. I'm tempted to get a set of tie-downs and strap the dining chairs to the table, but DH feels that she needs to learn (I kinda agree) - it all just means constant frustration. Did any of you have little climbers who did this? What did you do ? (or do I throw the chairs in the fire, as I'm currently tempted to do)

at least you can hear when she is moving the furniture and can put a stop to it immediately... nothing worse than not hearing the chair being put next to the bench and discovering later they have eaten your treat!!!!

Leah likes climbing on the chairs too so we have ended up lying them down under the table so she cant do anything with them, its a bit annoying lifting them up when we want them and she makes a beeline for them when they are up, but has stopped the climbing on everything (well most things!!) If I wasn't getting towards the end of this pregnancy I might do things differently but some days its better for my sanity if she is better contained!!

Sorry, it's a phase but it's a fun phase so it will probably stick around for a while!! You'll probably just have to watch her in the kitchen, and shut your bedroom (and bathroom and toilet) door. And teach Jono to eat anything containing dairy that looks like it's left within Ella's reach.... oh yea he already does that!