Baby-proofing and other fun chores

So with the new development of Crawling Cole, comes the realization that we must create a zone for Cole that is free of hazards. As I look around the bedroom and the living room, I see all of the possibilities and ways that Cole can hurt himself.  He tends to push off from whatever is behind him and he grabs at or touches whatever is in his path. Most of those things go directly into his mouth. He also bangs his head into whatever is in his path (i.e. the couch, the container underneath the bed). I say "Thunk!" and he laughs. He likes sound words like "Thunk" and "Vroom" and "Buzzzzzz." Hearing those words makes him giggle with glee. It is the cutest thing. Back to baby-proofing though.  Keith and I have decided that during our Christmas vacation we are going to take a day and re-organize and babyproof the house.  We have lots of items (magazines, chachkes, candles) that just take up valuable space. Also we have the leaning tower of CDs and another tower of DVDs that I can see being a huge hazard to Curious Cole.

Also, Our house is only about 1,000 square feet, so we must maximize the space we have. Because Cole goes to day care full-time we won't get credit for the 7 weekdays I am off (Keith is off for 5). So, we figured we might as well use one of them so that we can make sure the house is safe for Cole. It's much easier to work together than to do things one person at a time.

In other news, we've started the process of making Cole's baby food. We really did not have our stuff together in terms of what we wanted to feed him when we first started on solids. We just decided to start him on jarred food (organic jarred food) and figure it out from there. This past weekend Keith - the resident chef here at Chez Ferris - made organic butternut squash puree and pear puree. We purchased, through Amazon, three different types of frozen storage units: Baby Cubes, silicone tray with cover, and a set similar to Baby Cubes but a round version. We'll get back to you on which one we like best. But in the meantime I'll tell you what Cole likes best - the butternut squash.

Bath time was a lot of fun for Keith and Cole about two weeks ago when Keith decided to take a bath with Cole. He was going snowboarding the following morning and bathing the night before is part of his get ready for snowboarding ritual. The two had a blast with Cole splashing around and Keith giving Cole fun hairstyles. Here are two of the pics....

If those don't make you laugh, then I don't know what will.