Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Danger Baby

Sigh, we have entered the danger age. Guinness can pull himself up, and has this compulsion to do it whenever he can. He will crawl to the closest object and climb up it. Doesn't matter if it has wheels (like his walker or Gemma's car) and will roll away on him. Doesn't matter that it has square edges, like the coffee table. He is not too bad, but as with every beginner, he has his slips. And of course he hits head first on the floor. All it takes is to lose concentration for a second. Or a slight slip of the foot, and bang! I got out the foam squares today and made a huge rectangle to cover as much area as I could, and of course he managed to work his way away from the foam so he could hit his head 6 inches from the foam on the floor. I tried so hard! Today he hit his head on both sides, so at least he will be even. Oh, and then he was trying to crawl but his hand slipped on his drool and he hit the floor again.
Do you cover everything with foam; every edge, corner, square inch of floor, etc? We tried that with Gemma and she would rip the foam edging off of stuff, so it was a constant re-taping of it till we finally quit. Do you keep them confined? Bring his pack and play out and let him only play in that? Or in his walker or saucer, where he can't fall? (Just kidding, I know spending too much time in walkers isn't great) Cover the whole floor in foam for the next 6 weeks? This is a terrible stage to be living in Taiwan for; what I wouldn't give for a wall to wall fuzzy carpet, or at least slightly springy laminate.

1 comment:

  1. yeah, we put in this beautiful bambo hardwood in our house. But it is "strand woven" so VERY hard. And now we are buying area rugs and foam squares to cover our floors. Malcom isn't pullin ghimself up yet, but trying so hard to crawl. And it is so hard to be always watching. If you come up with a solution let me know!

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