Baby Proofing

Thor is getting ready to crawl, and this presents a whole new set of worries. You know what I mean….how do I keep him safe from EVERYTHING. Gah. I remember this all too well with my step daughter (she was 9 months old when I came into her life), so I have experience….it’s just that there is so much out there now, how do you know what’s worth getting and what’s not?

So I’ve been doing my research and found some pretty great stuff. Did you know that now they have plastic shields for your TV to protect it from little hands? It’s honestly not something I thought of….but thinking back I remember how useful that would have been with the amount of times that Ashley ran up to the TV and put her sticky hands all over it…

Now these aren’t really applicable to Thor…yet. But I think they are so neat! One is an extension for a light switch so little kids can turn off and on the light, and the other is this super cool portable night light. I wish I had known about those with Ashley – she went through this horrible phase where she was afraid of the dark so I had to bring her special Dora lamp everywhere. That portable one would have saved me a lot of headache — it’s even cool looking so she would have liked it. Note to self: get one for the wee man when he gets older.

There was really only one other thing that I “discovered” today that I absolutely need to get. And that’s this handy device to keep all our electronics cords out of the way of little hands. Why didn’t I have these before? Our house has way too much electronics, and we are constantly saying “No, don’t touch.” to the little people who come to visit us. Wouldn’t life be so much easier if I just had these covers so I didn’t have to worry about kids unplugging things?? It’s on my list now…

I’m sure there are tons of other things we’ll end up getting to protect Thor from his own curiosity and the destruction/pain it could cause. But for now he’s only thinking about crawling….so I probably have another week (at least!) to figure it all out.