So I didn't know anything about babies before Elena was born. I didn't pay attention to baby-proofing because I thought it was so far away, for sure I had one to one and a half years before she would be getting into trouble.
I didn't know about crawling.
Elena has been crawling for one month now and at first, wasn't much of a problem because she moved slowly and I could divert her from any tricky situations.
But now, I turn away for 30 seconds and she has wriggled her hands into the dirt of the potted plants and smeared them on her pajamas. Now, she holds onto the couch cushion and pulls herself up to grab the t.v. remote controls and changes the settings. Now, her favorite game is going to the entertainment center and unearthing the jumble of electrical cords from under the pile of pillows we've placed on top of them, in our naive attempt of "out of sight, out of mind."
It's like once she's discovered crawling, she doesn't want to stop moving!
And forget baby-proofing in Bahrain; I don't think they've ever heard of this before. There's a sad little selection of products in the corner of the store to satisfy ex-pats, but that's about it. They cost about five times as much as they would in the States, so I'm not buying them as a matter of principle. I'm talkin', one doorway baby gate with a layer of dust on it gathered since 2005, and another one delivered to the island so long ago that it has lost its box and just sits there, propped against the wall, so forlorn without packaging.
I was reading something the other day and it mentioned professional baby-proofers! Please! That's the other extreme-- paying someone to come into your house to do this?? Only in America...
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