Babyternals

Who knew once your baby started crawling your world would change once again. Now that my son has started crawling he is going everywhere and is into everything. I pick him up and put him in one place, I turn around and he is completely across the room getting into something. I love watching him crawl though. He has this accomplishment look on his face, like he has finally done something big. I am dealing with his knees turning really red since he crawls mainly on carpet. He has little carpet burns on his knees that I am trying to keep from getting any worse. I hate to keep pants on him all the time because it’s the middle of summer and it’s hot. He doesn’t want pants on and I don’t blame him. I put lotion and creams on him everyday and that has seemed to work a little. I put a blanket down to try to help but now he crawls right off of it. If I go in another room you can bet he’s coming right behind me just as quick as he can.

Crawling is one of those big milestones you think you can’t wait for your child to get to. All I can say, is just be prepared. Start baby proofing your house early. A real good way to tell if something is safe or not is to get on your hands and knees and look around. Basically, get on a baby’s level and see what they see. If it looks interesting from that view but you know is not safe for a baby move it, cover it up, whatever you need to do. Baby proofing is something that I didn’t do near soon enough. Even though my son hasn’t gotten hurt or anything I still find myself taking things out of his hand and moving him away from because I just didn’t move it.

Just a piece of advice – if you have a laptop and you keep it in the family room so you can just pick it up at any time. Please make sure it’s out of reach and your child can’t get to it. If your child gets to it and starts messing with the keys on the keyboard, they can come off. And if you think your child can’t get them off believe me they can. My son did and was able to get not one but two of the keys off before my husband realized it. Those keys are a choking hazard and we all know that baby’s love putting everything in there mouth. Luckily, my son did not and now the computer stays where he can not get to it.