Me! Me! We have the kitchen and living room "babyproofed" and gated off from the rest of the house. If he can reach it (and he can reach lots of stuff!), it ends up on the floor. He can open all my kitchen drawers, so there are usually various utensils, pots, and pans on the floor (stuff like spatulas that he can't get hurt on. All the "unsafe" things are in the top drawer that he can't reach...yet). Folded clothes get unfolded, anything that he can reach on the counters gets pulled off.
The bathroom is fun
In the time it takes me to pee and wash my hands, he's pulled various things out of the drawers, pulled towels or washcloths out of the cupboard, and climbs on the toilet to get to the toilet paper.
Oh, and he puts everything in the recycling bin. Our trash can is outside of the baby area, but the recycling cans are inside. He tips them over and gets all the paper out and all over the floor. When dp takes the recycling out, he goes through it one thing at a time to get all the good stuff out.
And the cans- he loves to move my canned goods from the cupboard to the counter. But he never moves them back. hehe
And yeah, we just simply cannot babyproof everything he can get into. There's always stuff on the floor. I constantly pick stuff up and put it away, but there's always more stuff coming out. I tried to ignore the stuff on the floor, figuring that it was going to come back out anyways, but when I started tripping over things I decided it wasn't working for me.
It does help that we have a gated off area. That eliminates a lot of things he can get into- no trash, no shoes, no dog bowls.
Some things we don't allow (ie: we move him every single time). But mostly, I've decided I could either "teach" him not to get into stuff, which would take a LOT of time and would stress both of us out, or I can do what I do- let him make a mess then clean as I can, which makes him happy.
eta- ds1 was soooo not like this!
The bathroom is fun
In the time it takes me to pee and wash my hands, he's pulled various things out of the drawers, pulled towels or washcloths out of the cupboard, and climbs on the toilet to get to the toilet paper.Oh, and he puts everything in the recycling bin. Our trash can is outside of the baby area, but the recycling cans are inside. He tips them over and gets all the paper out and all over the floor. When dp takes the recycling out, he goes through it one thing at a time to get all the good stuff out.
And the cans- he loves to move my canned goods from the cupboard to the counter. But he never moves them back. hehe
And yeah, we just simply cannot babyproof everything he can get into. There's always stuff on the floor. I constantly pick stuff up and put it away, but there's always more stuff coming out. I tried to ignore the stuff on the floor, figuring that it was going to come back out anyways, but when I started tripping over things I decided it wasn't working for me.
It does help that we have a gated off area. That eliminates a lot of things he can get into- no trash, no shoes, no dog bowls.
Some things we don't allow (ie: we move him every single time). But mostly, I've decided I could either "teach" him not to get into stuff, which would take a LOT of time and would stress both of us out, or I can do what I do- let him make a mess then clean as I can, which makes him happy.
eta- ds1 was soooo not like this!
Now I need an oven lock, because DD grabs an oven mitt, pulls it up on her arm, and acts like she is going to open the oven door (because that's where the "pee-aa!!!!" (pizza) usually is.
