Everything is mine to play with

We believe we have now officially joined the ranks of parents whose houses are pandemonium due to their young children. With Lexi being mobile now, she is finding all sorts of ways to entertain herself by walking around the various rooms of the house. Consequently, it is now hard to keep the house clean and tidy. We are constantly picking up toys and equal numbers of other items that are not toys but that Lexi considers toys. And we are finding things spread all over the place. Now all the time, items are taken from one room, brought to another room, and left there. Several days ago, fortunately I discovered our travel alarm clock in a garbage can before it was emptied. In the past couple of days, Lexi has taken to putting candles from our bedroom in my sock drawer in a built-in closet in another room. And we’ve had to keep the toothpaste in an unreachable spot in the bathroom because somehow Lexi got it open.