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Baby Jail

We had our house "babyproofed" by Safe Solutions of New England at the end of May. What this consisted of was having Tom, the owner, come and do a walk through to discuss what needed to be done. He then sold us and installed outlet covers, cupboard locks, a toilet lock, and miniblind cord wrappers thing-y's. He also bolted furniture in the babies' nursery to the wall so that it can't be pulled forward by accident. He did all of this in the span of 90 minutes! The hardware alone would have taken us 3 months to purchase and install... It was a super simple and cost effective way to get the first part of the childproofing process accomplished.

That was the basic stuff. Now that Zoe is crawling up a storm (and Silas is moving more every day), we need to finish out the process by figuring out what needs to be packed away, and how best to use gates and superyard to keep everyone safe with the typical ratio of two of them to one of us.

Here's the way our mornings used to look.



This was the scene today.




Apparently they wanted white wine with breakfast :)

We ended up moving some furniture around and now things in the kitchen seem very workable as a supervised play space. There is plenty of room, and honestly it would be great if they would be able to roam around in there and I might be able to get a little cooking done while they're awake, instead of always doing this when they nap or go to sleep for the night.

In the living room, I have started packing up knick knacks and other things like c.d.'s to which little hands are automatically attracted. Our doorways will require extra-wide gates, and we need to research which ones will work the best. In the meantime, we had to resort to pulling out the superyard. The idea is that ultimately we will need two completely safe zones for them inside the house: one is their nursery and I will be buying a gate for that doorway today; the other will be the living room.



It's sort of like a jail for babies right now, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do!

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