Containment

So, I'm showing my age here, but when I think about baby containment I think of Rugrats. I wanted to get Riley the same style enclosure for our house. Something versatile that we could completely do without, use inside or outside and set up various configurations. I knew it was time to think about baby gates with my impending surgery, but the other day she crawled across the floor and opened a drawer. She hadn't intended to open it at all she want to pull herself up to standing and...it opened. She was thrilled! She sat there smiling and opening and closing the drawer for 10min. Thunk...ha!...thunk...squeal...thunk...hee...thunk

Time for a baby gate.

So my BabyRUS coupons had the good sense to arrive that day offering 15% of baby gates, 50% off the extension to the gate I wanted and 20% any baby item. I thought perfect I'll just order it online with all the discounts. I'm not driving very much at the moment and those things are very heavy. It was a complicated mind numbing ordeal trying to use my coupons on line. Apparently, when the website says maximum of 3 discounts per order they don't mean use can use 3 different discounts on multiple items like I was trying to do. They mean you can get the same item with the same exact discount discount 3 times. Anyone else think that's completely stupid?

So, armed with customer services' assurances that you can only stack coupons in store I decided to enlist help and pick it up in person. I'd also like to say in my defense that the flyer with the coupons specifically said "price with discount and coupon." I'm sorry to harp on all this but people who make my life more difficult really piss me off lately.

On the plus side the Super Yard comes fully assembled. I had read my friend's blog about her baby gate assembly requiring a screw driver so I was weary. Not that I'm not capable just too

tired to concentrate. So, we put it up not so much in the officially sanctioned hexagon shape, but more of a screwed up triangle.

Riley liked the novelty of it at first. She could pull herself up on it and cruise around in there. It's really sturdy unlike the empty clothes hamper she pulled down on herself trying to stand up the other day. But the honeymoon was over pretty quickly. I like that the mess is contained (aka I won't trip over it) and the baby's safe from speeding 7yr olds.

It has a "door" which requires some serious coordination to open, up on one side down on the other at the same time. We decided to actually open it as little as possible to deter Isaac from trying to get in there. So, for now I have to entice the baby to stand and then pull her out. I was advised to find a way to contain the baby before my surgery and to consult an occupational therapist before I'm discharged from the hospital so I can figure out the best way to lift the baby without derailing my healing. I'm not super optimistic about it after two days of scooping her out of her pen.

It's just another example of God's sense of humor like the baby finally rolling around and needing the crib bumpers at the same time she figures out grabbing so she can promptly rip them down. Riley because mobile enough to need containment which means she minds being contained for the first time in her life. I guess she'll be more content when we round of her little gang of babies and they can escape on fun adventures and make it back just in time for the adults to never susept..