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... of bedroom safety

Abram is now able to pull up on anything and everything. He actually likes to stand more than sit. Sometimes, when he is playing with something on the floor, he will go from crawling pose to a "downward dog" type pose (for you yoga types out there) and just kind of hang out like that. Needless to say, he definitely is standing up in his crib. We need to lower the mattress. Like, tomorrow. It's on our to do list. Thankfully he did figure out how to sit back down as soon as he learned to pull himself up, so that's nice.

He's also chewing on his crib rail now.

This is obviously worrisome for many reasons. One of which is that his saw-like bottom teeth could easily take out chunks of the wood and he could swallow/choke on them. We'd also like to be able to sell the crib when we don't need it anymore. So I've been looking into the rail covers, assuming that I would buy one of the plastic ones. But as I was looking around, I saw a cloth one with velcro and thought: "I could do that!" So I did. But with snaps. During his nap. It was very easy - as you can probably see. It has a layer of fleece in the middle, so it's fairly well padded.

We had one snap misplacement issue (so it looks loose in the middle in this picture), but it's fixed now.

Pretty much the second I put it on he started sucking on it.

This made me realize that I might need to make another one with some modifications if I don't end up getting the plastic kind. I realized that I could use a vinyl-type fabric that wouldn't soak as easily. Or I might need to buy some organic, undyed fabric, because I'm a little worried about him sucking the dye out of the fabric (namely the green fleece in the middle). I guess I will be able to tell if that's happening if the top layer starts to turn green.

Other things we've done today (as of 3:00pm):

We "swam" for a little while.
He kept trying to stand up on the side of the pool and I told him no and moved him somewhere else to distract him about 20 times. We finally just went inside. But it was first time wearing his Charlie Banana swim diaper! I was glad he finally had something to wear because I like taking pictures of him in the pool, but he was always naked. My friend and I just had a conversation last night about how it felt weird to put pictures of our babies' "stuff" on the internet, even though they are babies. And you know how many pictures of Abram end up on the internet, so I like him to always look modest (i.e. not totally naked) or I don't share the pictures.

We also watched a Baby Einstein video this morning (words around the house). I think he's watched Baby Einstein four other times in his life and he hasn't seen one in about 2 months. This was the first time he was really "watching" it to the point that I thought he might actually learn something. But his favorite part, by far, was the little girl who did the sign language for all of the words.

Marlee Matlin was doing the signs at other points, too, but Abram was not interested in her. He only has eyes for cute, little, sign language girl. I may end up being able to do a "ladies man" blog with lots of documentation before this kid is even one year old. Oh. No.


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