Lucas-Proofing

Almost everyone who comes to visit us has asked if we have started baby-proofing the house.  Lucas has been crawling for about two months now and he has been trying to walk.  Ideally, we should have started baby-proofing before he became mobile but until now we haven't done any of that.

I thought at first that there won't be a need.  I thought that since we have a live-in nanny who's only job is to watch him, then there won't be that risk of him falling or sticking his fingers on an electrical outlet or opening the kitchen cabinet and getting access to cleansers and chemicals.  But even so, it is impossible for her [or us for that matter] to watch him all the time.  And even if we watch him like a hawk, there's always going to be that risk.  Accidents can happen.

So we started baby-proofing by buying a fence.  There is so much to fence.  We want to put a fence on the entry way to the kitchen, we want to put a fence around our audio-visual system because he now knows to push buttons on the cable box or DVD player--he is attracted to everything that lights up.  Eventually we're going to have to fence the pool.  Glad we don't have staircases so I have one less thing to worry about.

They said things get easier as the baby gets older.  Somehow that's true, but on the other hand, there also appears to be more and more things to consider.