Sunday, April 12, 2009

Taking care of Busyness 2

So, Tober is now14 months old and busier than ever.
He still loves the dishwasher...

And the fridge...

And any garbage can he can get to. We found out a little too late that he likes to gather items from around the house and put them in the kitchen garbage. Before we caught on, we're pretty sure that our DVD remote and all of his baby utensils ended up at the dump.



Tober is definitely one of those kids you have to watch constantly. If you leave him alone for a minute you are likely to find him doing something like this:


This last video shows how energetic he is, but it's also a little embarrassing. You might be a redneck if . . . your baby gate consists of an ironing board propped up by two vacuum cleaners! I know it's about as white trash as you can get, but that's exactly what we used for several months while we tried to find a baby gate that would work. The problem we had was that the post for our railing did not line up with the end of the wall on the other side, so a traditional baby gate wouldn't work because it would be mounted on an angle. I finally found a curved gate and it works great, but this footage remains.


The new gate:

5 comments:

The Melo Family said...

He is so cute! you guys do have your hands full tho! But parenthood is sooo wonderful!!:D

Stacy Ellison said...

i love it! i'm afraid i have a busy one too! you will have to tell me all your secrets to successful (not lose your mind while cleaning up messes) parenting :)

Kristin said...

I jsut don't know if a redneck would own 2 whole vacuums, you know? Ha ha, I am so sad but amused to hear of him secretly throwing things into the garbage. I think in his mind he's just helping out around the house. In the kleenex box vid, it doesn't look like he's thinking "FUN!" so much as, "Let me help you clean this box out, Mom...man this is taking forever- when will it end?!?"

Camille said...

I love the comment from above...2 whole vacuums....Hilarious...

kdance said...

Seriously, the CUTEST little guy ever! Well, he and Evan are tied for the cutest :) I love the censor boxes on the tub pictures below, by the way. Ha ha!