Babyproofing

Kayleigh has been crawling for almost two months now and we are still getting around to baby-proofing but I wanting to show what we have done so far.

Our first big thing was getting rid of our glass and metal accident-waiting-to-happen entertainment console.

Between trying to crawl into it, almost whacking her head on the glass corners and pulling every cord she could find we were running ourselves ragged. You pull Kayleigh away and set her down but before you could grab a toy to distract her she had already made a beeline back towards it. That little bugger is quick, let me tell ya.
We were able to unload the console on craigslist for $80 pretty quick to two college kids who just got their first apartment. They were so excited it was still available!

I'd been searching for a while for some sort of dresser or entertainment center that had closed storage but hadn't found anything I liked. We had to pull some old furniture out of storage and decided we like new dresser better than the one we had in out bedroom so we switch them. During this Charlie decided to measure the old dresser and lo and behold it fit perfectly.

So we took a few drawers out to make room for out blu-ray player and sound system and put our computer tower in the middle cabinet (we opened the back so it gets plenty of air) and now it is 99% baby proof!

 (The 1% is because Kay sometimes tries to play with the volume knob on the sound system)

Now all the cords are hidden in the back and we have plenty of room for storage that the wiggles can't get into.

Then we have out Evenflo baby gate.

We originally had a cheap wood one but it broke a month before Kayleigh started crawling and hadn't gotten around to buying a new one. Then one day my younger sister was helping her boyfriend's parents clear out their storage and saw they had a perfectly good working baby gate that they were just going to throw away!

It's really neat, actually. The gate has a wireless remote to latch and unlatch it so if you are carrying a child you won't have to put them down just to open it! Just press the button, wait a second, and open and close the gate - it will automatically re-latch itself. The only bad part is when the batteries start to run out it will randomly go through it's 'start up' phase, which consists of unlatching and re-latching about 10 times, during which the baby can easily open the gate and reap havoc on unprotected areas. (Why, no, this hasn't happened to me... Why are you looking at me like that... I swear!)

We still have to find some sort of a solution for the bookcase and coffee table. Right now we just distract Kay as much as possible and we are also trying to teach her 'no' but that's going as well as you probably think is it!