A bite here, a bite there....

Mellie is walking REALLY well now.  Which means....  She is getting into LOTS of trouble.  We have put the little thingies on the cabinets that make it difficult to open.  I have no idea how much longer they will work before she figures out how they work.  Mostly, she likes opening and closing them, which she can still mostly do, so she's not terribly interested in figuring it out.

Anyhow, the other day, she was being entirely too quiet, so Ronnie went to see what she was getting into.  Apparently, she had gotten into her box of Gerber banana cookies (more about how in a minute) and proceeded to fish cookies out of the box, take a single bite, and stick them back in the box.  (Delightful, no?  I choose to believe that she was just trying to mark them all as hers.  I mean, who wants to eat a cookie that has already had the first bite taken out of it?  Or, maybe she just thinks the first bite is the best.  She usually only eats about half before deciding to give the rest to one of the dogs, anyhow.)  Last night, I went to get her a cookie, and damned if the one I got her didn't already have a bite taken out of it!  ;) 

This brings us to...  How did she get into the cookies in the first place?  I'm 60% sure that they were in the cabinet with the rest of her food and snacks.  Which has a latch thingie.  I SUSPECT that she opened the cabinet as far as she could, reached her skinny little arm in the two inch opening, grabbed the box, and managed to remove it via the two inch slot.  Pretty amazing.  Of course, maybe the latch thingie didn't catch.  It's been known to happen.  And, there is also a 40% chance that the cookies were on the counter instead of in the cabinet.  In which case she may have just knocked them down and had her way with them.  The world will never know. 

Added 9/2/2011 -- Ronnie caught Mellie red handed with the banana cookie bag!  Enjoy!