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.