Remember when I posted about Siena constantly falling down and screaming, between being a new crawler and a brand new pull-to-stand-er? Well, I’ve devised some creative solutions. To keep her from repeatedly smacking her head into the hard sides of her crib, I borrowed the portable (and soft sided!) crib from my parents. With so little room in the nursery, I decided to just plop it right inside the real crib. Works pretty well!

Oh, and putting her in the sleep sack keeps her from getting up on her feet, too 😉

As for all her faceplants while she’s crawling and playing on the floor…

I’ve tried a few things. I put four interlocking foam mats together into a square to make a softer surface, and tried using furniture as a border around it.

She just scooted the barriers as she pulled to stand on them…then fell on her face. So I pulled the couch away from the wall and put the foam mats all in a row.

We call this “the dog run” and it can keep her occupied for quite a while as long as I rotate the toys. She has just started to get fussy when she can’t see me, which led to the newest addition to our household:

Introducing, The Good Old Fashioned Cardboard Box! (The Box, for short)

I love that I can scoot The Box around to the different parts of the house I’m working in and she’s contained and content. Our standing Siena is finally starting to plop to a sitting position rather than fall forward or backward like a plank, so soon these creative little solutions won’t be needed. Until then, I thought they were cute enough to share.