Maybe not Sesame Street Blocks

Well, the fireplace idea seemed brilliant....until you account for the fact that it's bright, colorful, and right at baby-level. Seems Nathanial, Ethan, and Noah have taken a liking to it and have decided that their intent everyday is to get it down as fast as possible. Daddy says, no problem...I'll just add more duct tape! (Yes, that's duct tape on the back of it.) I'm thinking we're going to end up needing to buy stock in the duct tape company by the time they are 3! Nathanial appears to be missing from the photo, but that's only because I couldn't get what he was doing into the picture. He also has three or four of the little squares that he is intently playing with in the bottom left of the picture. These guys are sure teaching us a new thing every day!!

Pulling Up

Now Ethan and Nathanial have both decided they love to pull up on things. Lovely, just lovely. They also choose the most unsafe things to pull up on. For instance, the brick fireplace. Great! Or, the glass shelves in the entertainment center. Wonderful! So now I have a very stylin' Sesame Street foam block border around my fireplace. Oh, how I love that! I guess it's better than Steve's idea....a comforter! What?!?! I think not. This is softer anyway. But, when I was first putting it on there, all activity stopped and I turned around to see three very curious little people crawling over and staring at me. Seems all the bright colors and Sesame Street characters is an attention-getter. I am in the process of trying to order a fireplace cover, but Steve is bucking it (they are expensive, I'll give him that). He seems to think this Sesame Street thing is going to work perfectly. So far it is, but we'll see how long that lasts!