Lock-Out Time!
Baby-proofing is not the easiest thing to do or maintain when you have multiples.
It's somewhat different than what one would normally do for just one baby, actually.
I mean, how many people do you know that have actually had to raise their chandeliers just to keep your children from "Flying" from it?
Well, at my house, I have had to find a way to keep the lower oven closed so that my middle triplet doesn't tailgate from it, or have too much fun taking the oven racks out and dragging them 'round the house to hear the nice scrape-ie noises that it makes!
The fireplace is STILL giving me fits, as I have written much account of that major matter!
Then there was the day that Kaiden learned to open doors, and immediately set about luring his sister into the pantry so he could lock her inside it.
That resulted in those little stay-puff marshmallow doorknob covers being put on pretty much every doorknob in the house that we could imagine!
Well, lately, and out of pure accident, they have rediscovered that they can pull open the cabinet doors again and gain access to a multitude of breakable and fun things.
Used to, they would just grab the door pulls and shake them back and forth as fast as possible to try and jiggle the locks loose. We managed to tighten everything somehow, though!
That lasted for a time, too. Until today, when I heard the tell-tale banging of pots, pans and the onset of promised to result in breaky noises!
My solution came to me suddenly. It's probably not the greatest of solutions, and it definitely is a temporary one.
I took a yardstick, and threaded it through the cabinet pulls that already have the outside tether lock on it, and fed it into the lone problem cabinet pull.
It hasn't worked quite the way I had planned on things working, but it's holding at the moment!
They did figure out almost immediately that they could unthread the yardstick from the cabinet pulls.
The payoff, though, lies in the novelty of the yardstick. Apparently, it is interesting and distraction enough to warrant them staying out of the cabinet!
At the moment, this set-up is working. Now, tomorrow, I probably shall be in trouble once the novelty wears off.
It's somewhat different than what one would normally do for just one baby, actually.
I mean, how many people do you know that have actually had to raise their chandeliers just to keep your children from "Flying" from it?
Well, at my house, I have had to find a way to keep the lower oven closed so that my middle triplet doesn't tailgate from it, or have too much fun taking the oven racks out and dragging them 'round the house to hear the nice scrape-ie noises that it makes!
The fireplace is STILL giving me fits, as I have written much account of that major matter!
Then there was the day that Kaiden learned to open doors, and immediately set about luring his sister into the pantry so he could lock her inside it.
That resulted in those little stay-puff marshmallow doorknob covers being put on pretty much every doorknob in the house that we could imagine!
Well, lately, and out of pure accident, they have rediscovered that they can pull open the cabinet doors again and gain access to a multitude of breakable and fun things.
Used to, they would just grab the door pulls and shake them back and forth as fast as possible to try and jiggle the locks loose. We managed to tighten everything somehow, though!
That lasted for a time, too. Until today, when I heard the tell-tale banging of pots, pans and the onset of promised to result in breaky noises!
My solution came to me suddenly. It's probably not the greatest of solutions, and it definitely is a temporary one.
I took a yardstick, and threaded it through the cabinet pulls that already have the outside tether lock on it, and fed it into the lone problem cabinet pull.
It hasn't worked quite the way I had planned on things working, but it's holding at the moment!
They did figure out almost immediately that they could unthread the yardstick from the cabinet pulls.
The payoff, though, lies in the novelty of the yardstick. Apparently, it is interesting and distraction enough to warrant them staying out of the cabinet!
At the moment, this set-up is working. Now, tomorrow, I probably shall be in trouble once the novelty wears off.
posted by Mimi Rankin Webb at 12:24 PM
Mimi is the mother of four: a 12 1/2-year-old boy and 1-year-old triplets (two boys and one girl). She is very happily busy taking care of everyone, whether it's the triplets' multiple doctor appointments, attempting a shopping excursion or volunteering to plan her son's school renaissance festival.
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