David's Carrousel

This was certainly David's day to practice his walking skills. Up, step, step, down he went all evening. He was so thrilled to be using his broom that we decided to take one step further on the path toward spoiling him deliciously rotten. We brought out a toy that I had been saving for him to receive on a walky kind of day like today. He liked it very much, though as soon as Carmen stopped dismantling my bookshelf and realized that David had something new, she needed to play with it, too (hence the picture being a bit askew . . . I had a screaming Carmen at my foot).


The wooden bar in the lower part of the photo is yet another baby gate. We now have:

• one at the living room doorway, blocking the front door of the house (because the door won't open if two babies are leaning against it),
  
• one in the bathroom to block the toilet, the BBLPs (Baby Bjorn Little Potties, for you civilians), and the oh-so-tempting toilet paper,
  
• and then the gate between the kitchen and the hallway.

And, of course, we still have the kiddie corral at the kitchen window. Eventually the corral will be dismantled and made into a practical life area for the babes. The gates allow me the option of having free-range babies, or only partially free-range babies. Splitting the house in half allows me to more easily keep my eye on one or the other while still giving them lots of opportunity to roam.