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Making Our Home Child-Friendly

Henry – Crawling? from SaraMattHossHop-singClemHenry on Vimeo.Whoa, Nelly! Henry is essentially crawling!

I say “essentially” because–as you can see from the video–he’s not officially crawling. But he is certainly able to get himself from Point A to Point B in a pretty quick fashion.

It’s time to make sure our house is completely child-friendly. I like that phrase better than “child-proof.” We want our house to be a welcoming place for every family member (except the chickens are not welcome unless they opt to wear diapers, which they would hate!).

We didn’t do this earlier because we honestly thought we would be living in a new house by the time Henry could crawl.

Since we’ll hopefully be in a new house by October, I don’t need to make it perfect. Henry gets lots of supervision.

Here’s what I’m thinking I need to do:

  • Put outlet covers in all the plugs
  • Get rid of the lamp on the desk in his room. He’s very fascinated by the cord.
  • Remove some of the baskets in his shelf and replace them with trays that hold his toys. He can crawl to them on his own now, which will honor his need for independence!
  • Vacuum much more frequently to make sure we’re not leaving anything little on the floor that Henry could choke on.
  • Keep our house very de-cluttered and clean in general.

I feel like that should do it for the crawling stage. He won’t have the opportunity to get into cabinets right now.

What do you think? What am I missing?

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