Fight Club
See how nice and sweet my husband’s previous post was about our girl walking. Well, we have changed our tune. We have spent the past three days playing bumper guard for our baby girl – and by the looks of her, we have failed miserably. She looks like she joined The Fight Club.
Couple of things we learned (yes, we are first time parents)
1. Don’t buy that gorgeous concrete slab coffee table from Crate and Barrel because you figured that your kids could bang on it with their toys and try to write on it and it would be ok. Well, the banging comes in the form of baby’s head/mouth/cheek hitting the table as she toddles toward it.
2. Take your childs socks off when she is running around on hardwood floors. Better to have chilly toes than a head banging into the floor.
3. You might want to rethink the wrought iron table and chairs you have. Wrought iron to the back of the head…not so nice.
Even with all the head banging….it is so cute to see her walk and it makes her so happy. We are just so nervous every time she stands up. We hold our breath as she walks and we play gate around the coffee table. I am going to try and get a padded bumper for the table and Ed and I are rethinking our baby proofing.
Miss Miss has also figured out how to open all the cabinets. Her new favorite game is to see what she can pull out of the cabinet and chew on. I had to make a quick trip to Target to pick up some extra baby proofing cabinet closers.
I can’t believe she will be one year old on Wednesday. My how our life has changed. I can’t imagine life without her now. She is our heart walking around outside our bodies.