We suddenly have a need to baby proof our house. I know, we’ve had a baby for almost five months now (tomorrow actually), but he’s been immobile and it hasn’t been a problem. Yesterday we discovered that he’s not immobile any longer. He has now figured out he can roll. Or should I say he has figured out he can put his front-to-back roll and his back-to-front roll together and move around. I don’t think he has a purpose to his direction, but we have found him five feet away from where we left him. Last night we actually watched him roll around. And now here’s our dilemma:
We have a wrought iron staircase in the center of our house; the very same staircase that gave me a concussion. I figure that when he begins to crawl around we’ll get one of these to baby proof it downstairs. The upstairs is the big problem. No one has ever installed a railing to go around the opening. The most they have done was to stack cinder blocks around it; very unstable cinder blocks that won’t hold an inquisitive child exploring the world. Ryan and I were talking about it last night and what we can do to make it safe. We actually need to build some sort of railing to go around the top and it will need to be something solid and stable that can withstand a little body throwing its weight against it. Apparently, we need to build it soon! I guess we might be making a trip to Home Depot tomorrow.
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