what a day!!

Yay Alex.....welcome to the club Nicola!!! And I dont want to tell you how much of a handfull they become. Zaara refuses to sit still for a sec!! You are right the fun begins!!

Just wondering... have you ladies totally rearanged your homes so that your kids can't hurt themselves and get into things they shouldn't. Or have you taught them not to go into certain areas? I don't want to have to change everything around, but I don't want Alex to get hurt, and he is really too young to teach where not to go. Hmmm what to do?? I will get those latches for the cupboard so he cant get into the cleaning stuff etc. I have moved some furniture, but have other stuff I can't move. Like the bar stools, which he can climb on and Im afraid they will tip on him. Any suggestions?? Arrrggg... why did I want him to be able to move!!

Can't really move them under the bar. Might just take them away for awhile, we don't really use the breakfast bar much anyway. Maybe I will just stock up on Pamol and bandaids!!

Oh just think of the fun you will be having this time next year with 2 little trouble makers exploring your house!! I feel for you already!!

My Briona is quite the explorer at the moment, fortunately she's a bit older and she now KNOWS what she can't touch - not that it always stops her!

At our place we put up the stuff that really mattered and left everything else down to be learned off. It's hard with the 9-10 month age as they require a lot of watching and removing and don't catch on to "no" as early as we'd like. I guess it comes down to how much you can be bothered at the end of the day.

Nicola....Zaara goes every where and touches every thing but we always say "no Zaara ...no touchy touchy....you will get an ouchy" and she tends to listen....as when she does not she got hurt a few times.

Some places she just avoids as we always tell her not to go there or touch. some times tho she goes to places she is not allowed and looks at us to see what we will do.....we go and pick her up and tell her "NO" the only thing I have done is bought those plastic switch board protectors and removed the wine bottles from the nice wine rack we have. Other than that I have changed nothing. I removed all cleaning products to the garage so that she does not have access to that.

You cant help that they get hurt...its bound to happen!!

i never had that problem until jack was old enough to understand what 'no' meant, he didn't crawl until 13mths! before that he rolled everywhere but there's not much around floor level for him to get into apart from bibs and nappies on the bottom of the change table....which use to end up everywhere

sorry that wasn't much help at all

We have our DVD player/playstation and stereo all at kid level... and it was fine with just telling Han not to touch... until she learnt about putting things in the DVD thingy. Luckily so far it has only been CDs or DVDs, but I did find a coaster in my CD Rom in my computer

So basically, you can just operate on a basis of not touching things... providing you are comfortable with the fact that when you aren't looking they are bound to be touched (atleast once). It does make it semi-easy if you go to a non-baby friendly house as DVD players etc aren't a novelty.

Woohoo Go Alex!

we have chacthers on every cardbroad in the lounge-kicthen as james loves to open and pull everything out of the cardbroad and we have a gate for when we are cooking so he wont get bruntouther then that i just move him and say no but the cheeky little boy will go back with no fail