There are three entries into our kitchen: one from the living room, one from the hall, and one from the back room where the stairs are. The back one has a baby gate up most of the time to keep Alyson from going upstairs. The other two are left open.
Alyson was eating animal crackers, and the rule is that she has to stay in the kitchen while she eats them. She started walking toward the doorway to the living room.
Me: Alyson, stop.
Alyson turned to me and eyed me as if saying, what are you going to do if I don't?
Me: Alyson, you still have animal crackers. Stay in the kitchen.
She inched a little closer to the door while peeking back at me around the cabinet. I walked over to her and pulled her back into the kitchen. Since she was still trying to get into the living room, I put the other baby gate we have up in that doorway. It kept her from going into the living room, and she never remembered that there is another doorway she could have tried to use. (I took it down when she was done with the animal crackers. Plus, at that point, I think she remembered the other doorway because Madelyn went around that way.)
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