We're in Trouble Now

For a while, we've know that Dougie loves to climb. He would pile up things and get on top, he'd climb on boxes, he even tried to climb into his own stroller. He never tried to climb on the furniture though, that is, until now.

I was sitting at my desk when I heard a strange sound. I leaned slightly and there was Dougie, on the coffee table.





I pulled him off right away. Well, right after I took a few pictures. He has done it several times since then but been quickly removed. It appeared that he may have been using the couch to get up there so I moved the table away a bit and that slowed his progress.

Tonight, Dougie found something else to climb. All the cupboards in the kitchen have child locks on them except one. We keep various things that we think Dougie may enjoy in that one cupboard. At the back, we keep a few things that we don't use often but aren't breakable (straws, disposable cups, etc). Tonight, Dougie decided he wanted to play with those, so he went in after them.







He ended up sitting up inside the cupboard to play. It took a bit to get him back out but we managed. The cups he was most interested in have since been moved to another cupboard. Hopefully, that will put an end to his climbing in there. If not, we'll have to look at getting a child lock for that cupboard too.

Let's just hope he doesn't learn to climb the baby gates any time soon.