Baby Jail

Hi everyone, we hope you all are having a great weekend. We are enjoying nice sunny weather here in Colorado, but who knows, as we say here the weather can change every five minutes, so maybe soon it will be snowing! We have been busy, but at the same time nothing eventful has happened.
Ever since Brady learned how to pull up, he tries to pull up on everything. When he wakes up each morning or from his nap we know he is awake by the sound of him trying to break out of his crib. Here he is one morning waiting for us to get him out of his baby jail.

Brady is increasingly mobile, so he tests our ability to confine him daily. He mostly plays with his toys in our living room, on the floor. The way our house is set up, the living room is raised from the rest of the main level, so there are two stairs that go down to our kitchen and two stairs that go down to the front door and our office. There are also a flight of stairs that lead to the upstairs level. It is a really neat floor plan that we fell in love with when we bought the house, but it is not baby friendly. The only way to put baby gates up is to drill into banisters and walls. So we have one gate that blocks the stairs so Brady cannot go upstairs but for the other stairs we have a cardboard box that is our gate. It worked for awhile, but he has figured out that it isn't very sturdy so now we have invented a new concept, watching him! We are currently teaching him how to go down the steps on his belly, so hopefully he will learn soon how to go up and down the stairs safely. Here is Brady and Coco trying to get though the baby gate to the stairs.



We hope you have a great week! Love you all!