Flooring Project: The babies are so helpful

Ben playing with our baby barrier

 

Their new favorite place to hang out was inside the built in shelf. Later, I found out they were pulling out the metal shelf holders and sucking on them. One would sit in the unit and tell stories to the other sitting on the floor. It was like baby theater.

 

Then they found the extension cords. They LOVED the extension cords. They would each hold a section and just walk back and forth across the floor. Eventually, Alex started doing circles around Ben, literally, and wrapped him up like in a cartoon. Then he pulled really hard and Ben fell down. He was not happy. Alex was not happy that he had no more slack in his line. 2 crying babies.

Duct tape. Lots of fun. Hard to find after they have rolled it around the floor and chewed on it.

Alex

 

I left them alone in the room for a while. They both crawled onto the futon. When I came back in this is what I found. Ben leaning on the bear and Alex under the curtain.

 

Alex crawling behind the couch. They really enjoy crawling through tight spaces. This was the first thing they did after we got the couch back in the living room.

 

Alex yellow, Ben red

 

Baby Theater- Alex white Ben blue

 

Ben yellow Alex orange

 

 

They were getting pretty good at breaching the baby barrier.  It was originally the toy box and the kitchen chair.  One managed to crawl under the chair and show up in the work area.  To try to stop that, I added a hamper full of clean, unfolded clothes.  They thought that was a great thing to crawl in to.  Needless to say, all of that had to be rewashed.

 

Ben Yellow Alex orange

 

Alex standing in the hamper while looking for a toy.

 

This was baby barrier pre-hamper.  Notice all the toys piled up behind them?  The toys were not keeping them busy.  I tried distracting them with graham crackers.  That didn't work very well.  They were still upset, but they were also smearing graham cracker goo everywhere.  Alex left Ben right

 

This was after we emptied out the hall closet to put flooring in.  The skillet was hiding at the bottom.  Alex made a grand attempt to squeeze past the barrier.  He was not happy when he couldn't make it.

 

I like this one because they are both crouching down the same way.  Ben yellow Alex brown.

 

Ben

Ben is not happy. 

Alex giving Ben's nose a kiss

 

The babies walking around on the new floor.  They just paced back and forth for like 15 minutes.

 

 

No babies were harmed in the making of this video.  They regularly roll off the futon to get down.  Ben yellow Alex brown.  The perfect video.  You get to see: babies laughing together, Ben falling off the futon, Alex crawl on to the futon.