Controling our household monster!

Friday, May 9th

No my house was not invaded by a scary creature, just S terrorizing our house. S moves around by using a combination of going forward a couple steps then stopping, army style crawl and bunny hop. When I want her to move quickly I'll just show her my red leather coach handbag, she loves it, infact she even decided to eat the shoulder strap the other day. I wonder if coach have handbags for 7 month olds!

Anyway, started on the childproofing of the house the other day. Boy is this a huge, no a massive task. I stupidly didn't realize how big this task was until my friend came over for a playdate the other day, well everywhere the little one crawled he pulled, tugged and tried to put everything into his mouth. It was a great way to realize what needs to go and what needs to be childproofed. After analysing what we should do in each room I started to write up a list - yes one of my famous lists. This is what we needed to buy:

• Toilet seat locks
• Cupboard locks
• Drawer locks
• Door locks
• Power outlet covers
• Power outlet covers to hide cables
• Gate for top of stairs
• Gates to stop S crawling out of family room, this involves blocking 3 passageways
• Couple shelf's to move our Knick knacks from the side table's
• Door wedge's to stop fingers sticking into side of door
• Covers for our blind cord's
• Move bakers pantry from kitchen to lounge/dinning room
• Swap coffee table for ottoman

This is the beginning, I have a whole bunch of more stuff due to arrive from our local baby store any day. One nice thing I was able to pay for this with my ebay money that I made last summer by selling our unwanted stuff - yeah!

Looks like another weekend will be spent installing more gates and other childproofing gadgets.

Gate at top of stairs

One of the gates in the family room