baby gate

We installed a new baby gate in our house this weekend. It's in the hallway between the front part of the house and the back - between the downstairs bathroom and kitchen.

We are dealing with a HIGHLY mobile little man and he loves.loves.loves. going around the corner to get into all sorts of trouble (i.e. dogfood, dogwater, toilet, the door-donger by the garage door, the blind strings, etc).

So, a neighbor of ours gave us this wonderfully free gate - and it was sitting in the garage for a while. We decided on a hardware mounted gate for the bottom of the stairs. But, I've got to tell ya - this one isn't bad! It's tension mounted and is easy for us to open and to keep him out of trouble. It was the right prices (ha!) and easy to install/un-install.

How can you go wrong?

We also had to install the dreaded cabinet locks. Now Daddy and Mama are getting used to it and our little man hasn't even noticed. We had a vision of the future when a 14 mo old was at our house this weekend and she was in the garbage in 2 seconds flat - chewing on some eggs shells before we could even blink. We had the cabinet locks already - but, now we could see that we would need them installed fast!