Babyproofing Begins

[billroper]

Today, daisy_knotwise and I assembled a rotating CD cabinet with doors (and no handles) to replace the open shelves that our CDs had been stacked on downstairs and which dek9's children had demonstrated to be woefully subject to CD destruction.

We also bought some oak 1x4s to mount the baby gate on the stairs. Real soon now.

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[oreouk.livejournal.com]

There's baby proofing and baby proofing and to some extent it depends on your baby. Neither of ours have gone in for wholesale de-shelving of cds or books, though this may have been due to our ability to be present when they were experimenting with the concept and getting to nip it in the bud. Stairgates are vital but in some instances internal baby proofing can be applied rather than external!

Also if you have a good set of stairs (short) for them to practice on then some babies become stair proficient at an earlier age (Amy) than others (Alex). We learnt that from Alexa's daughter in Germany, who is only a week or two older than Amy but already reasonably stair proficient last October, so I encouraged Amy to emulate her and we got to take our stair gates down earlier than anticipated (when Amy was 1 1/2).

[billroper]

That's a good idea on the stairs and we'll keep it in mind. Thanks!

Right now, Katie hasn't quite grasped the concept of edges and falling. The three inch tall enormous CD cabinet box was on the ground waiting to be assembled last night and Katie crawled up onto in and then crawled further and fell off the other side, whacking her chin.

Waaaaah!

At least it was only a three inch fall...

[dek9.livejournal.com]

Now, to be fair to Tatum, she didn't actually BREAK any CD cases....

Did she?

[billroper]

There was one spectacularly broken case in the old cabinet, but it wasn't Tatum's fault. :) I forget how that one died, but it died real good. Broke the shell, broke the gray plastic tray...