the dangers of a quiet house...

While Makena was down for a 2 1/2 hour nap we were hard at work organizing our home office area. Gabe had been outside playing with his sandbox and behaving phenomenally well. We were able to get a ton accomplished! About 30 minutes ago, gabe entered the house and continued to play by himself requiring no attention from us and maintaining relatively quiet levels of sound. The noises he was making could not have been happier. When we finally went out to check on him, he was mumbling something unintelligibly and we realized that his mouth was completely full of something that was beginning to leak out of the corners of his mouth and down his chin. He could not have been more pleased with himself as we realized he had helped himself to a literally a plateful of chocolates that had been on the kitchen counter (requiring him to move the step stool to reach them).