I walked into the kitchen the other day to find the Baby gleefully opening and closing one of the sliding drawers. The drawer full of tupperwear? No, of course not. No, he was playing in the drawer where we keep all the big, sharp knifes and other finger removing utensils.
Woops, thought I. Time to up ante on the baby-proofing…again.
So off we trudged to the local cheapo store where we’d heard rumor of affordable baby locks and other goodies. Bearing in mind it took me a week to ‘adapt’ the fan cover we bought there to make it function, I should have known better.
Number of locks purchased and installed: 5
Number of times I couldn’t figure the locks out to get into the cupboard: 4
Number of locks broken in first hour by mummies forgetting they are there: 3
Number of locks still in place and functional: 1
Number of times the Baby has tried to open the locked cupboard since the locks were installed: 0
We’re leaving the impenetrable lock on the poison cupboard because we don’t want the Baby chugging back bleach, I can’t figure out how to open the flaming thing anyway and it gives me an excuse not to clean as I can’t access the chemicals.
The lock on the big knife drawer was the first to break…..He’ll only mess around with huge knives once though, right?
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Great post. I am dreading the baby proofing trials.
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Really not fun. And just when you think it’s sorted he grows and can reach more
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Do you think the cleaning excuse would still wash if your child was 3….lol 😀 why do they always find the most dangerous things!! #TwinklyTuesdays
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100% yes! As you say they are more likely to find the dangerous stuff and be able to open it when they get older. I’d say you could feasibly use that excuse until they’re old enough to be trained to clean the bathroom themselves.
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We’re gearing up for baby proofing and my mom, in all her think spanish accentedness says to us, “Gwy jew putten dat? When you was a baby, jew touch it, i give you pow pow, you no touch it again!” Really mom?! That’s how you baby proofed? “Are jew alive?! Bueno! Berry good baby proofing!”…i just cannot!
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Haha, that was my mother’s response too. Except in a more prim, English way. I think her words were ‘I never babyproofed. My children knew not to touch things’. I suspect there was an unmentioned ‘pow pow’ in that solution too.
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Haha that is SO TRUE! Except I always found that my kids were able to open the ones I couldn’t. Oops…lock fail. I don’t know if you got a ping-back, but I gave you a shout-out on my blog “Awards” from yesterday.😆
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It wouldn’t surprise me. The Baby is adept at using his little razor fingernails to pick off stickers I thought were firmly attached. Oh, I didn’t, no. I’ll go and check it out, thanks!
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Haha! We’ve never put locks on our kitchen cupboard drawers… we just close the main door to the kitchen and the twins aren’t granted access!! LOL! Poor babies — it that mean??! Thanks so much for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday — hope to see you again next week! x
Caro | http://www.thetwinklediaries.co.uk
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No, not mean at all. Completely sensible! Our downstairs is open plan so unfortunately no door to close :-(. Thanks for hosting!
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Ah at least you purchased the correct equipment, our baby proofing took place with hair bobbles and scarves…..#twinklytuesday
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We may well be turning to those now I’ve broken most of the locks!
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Haha! Excellent excuse not to clean, though… I’m definitely going to have to re-evaluate where I keep my bleach (currently just on floor of bathroom. Probably more accessible to baby than us. Oops). x
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Yes, our tot is drawn to our toilet brush like a fly to poop.
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Well at least you went to the effort of putting them on! I bought some when Reeve was at an age of getting into drawers/cupboards……then I couldn’t figure out how to install them. So I just went “Meh”, it will be fine. Hopeless mother I am.
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Haha! Full disclosure: The Mummy installed them 🙂
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Ha, I can relate to this. We put child-proof locks on all of our kitchen and bathroom cupboard doors. They worked brilliantly. So good in fact that neither myself or my husband could get into the cupboards!
#mummymonday
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Yeah I have to rely on the Mummy to open the surviving locks 🙂
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Oh no! Our llittlest is now managing to reach into the cutlery drawer too. I have to remind my husband not to put the sharp pointy things in there now… 🙂
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I’m hoping our tot has forgotten the delights of the pointy things drawer but I suspect he’s just biding his time, waiting of an opportunity to cut off one of his fingers.
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lol they always go for the most dangerous cupboards!
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The most dangerous everything!
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We never really did this! oops!! MIL bought us plug socket covers, plastic things for sharp corners and cupboard locks. We installed zero. This made me smile though as always!! xx #mummymondays
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We use the plug covers as the Baby has a morbid fascination with trying to stick his fingers in the holes. They also work to well, I can never get them out to put the plug in.
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Lol its typical that now he’s lost interest now you’ve got it sorted. Whenever I hear of baby proofing I think of that scene in Friends where Rachel gets her cardigan attached to the drawer and Joey can’t open the fridge!
Thanks for linking to #AnythingGoes
Debbie
http://www.myrandommusings.blogspot.com
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Haha, yeah. I had to ask my wife to open the fridge earlier.
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brilliant post. I’ve just had baby no# 3 after a 7 year gap from my 2 boys and I’m dreading going back to this!! I’ll never forget one of my boys managing to drink dishwasher rinse aid in the 10 seconds that I wasn’t watching him. That’s what inspired our last lot of kitchen security. Might try and get ahead of the game this time!
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Whoops! Yes, all our chemicals are now under hardcore lock and key, in the impenetrable cupboard.
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This brought back really fond memories of trapped fingers, LOL. Our kitchen cupboards are covered in holes it looks like we’ve had woodworm.
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Ouch. holes from baby proofing? I guess if stuff was screwed in it’d be a little stronger than the stickers we have. Don’t think our landlords would be too happy though,
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oh dear. lol! entertaining post. 🙂 #mummymonday
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Oh dear is right! Thanks 🙂
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