Safety First

Now that the little bugger is crawling, his hands, feet, and head end up in every nook and cranny, under and behind furniture, and always underfoot. I just installed these "Safe Plates" over my outlets, and used outlet plugs for anything less frequently used. Asides from the outlets, watch out for any loose wires around your home, from circuit breakers to cell phone chargers. For some reason, everyone tells me that wires conduct electricity and attract babies; both facts I can testify to.

So to help keep Baby safe and confined, we usually plop him into his Baby Einstein Activity Center, courtesy of his Auntie. Looking for more creative ways to hold him in place, we've also placed him in this vintage toy that Daddy found in the attic, likely from the 1970's: If Daddy was not blinded by the happy exterior and red button nose, he may have noticed the obvious lack of safety features and high likelihood of being recalled in the 1980's, in what I now call the Happy Accident Ball, which eventually led to: ...which happened when baby tipped over and landed on his face. So we moved on to safer places to keep Baby, like in a fully enclosed swing, which yielded much happier results.
So a few lessons learned over the past couple of weeks:

• Keep those outlets covered and wires out of reach of crawling babies
  
• Play with toys less than a decade old and likely to be approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Cardboard boxes aren't just great for holding boxes of Girl Scout cookies