do you need a tissue?

When Erin or I is home alone with Will and we need to take a shower, it can be an ordeal. We usually put the safety gate up at the top of the stairs, and shut all the doors except the one to the bathroom and the one to Will's room, so he has a zone of safe places to play while we shower. He sometimes will stay entertained by himself reading books in his room or pulling animals out his cradle and talking to them. But this only lasts a few minutes, until without fail, he will crawl into the bathroom to see what we're up to. Then he pulls the curtain back to see what you're up to, and stands there and chats for awhile. Putting the curtain back inside the shower tub is not an option with him, and he'll let you know so if you try to pull it away from him. As water gets all over him and the floor, one strategy is to throw some of his bath toys out into the bathroom, which he will go investigate, buying us enough time to wash/rinse our hair if we're fast.

Last week we were going through the normal shower activities as I just described, when suddenly I realized it had been more than enough time for him to go get the toys I had thrown out, and to return to the tub, but that he hadn't yet done so. As you can see from the pictures here, it was because he found something else to occupy his attention. I quickly jumped out of the shower and ran to get the camera while he worked on this project.

PS - we now have to put the tissues out of reach, and also have to leave the toilet paper roll off of the spool and on the counter, because yes, he also likes to unravel the whole roll of TP.