I like to move it move it!

This past week has been quite an adventure with the little guy crawling all over the place. He's become a little less high maintenance since he's discovered that he doesn't need us to walk him all over the place, which is a definite bonus for us. However, we've traded one set of issue for a whole new set.
Some thoughts on baby proofing:

• Who knew that a wine rack would be a prime candidate for little hands to grope and grab?
• Fire extinguishers we have posted in key areas upstairs - red and shiny - of course he wants to play with them. Now we have to mount them on the wall.
• The little springy doorstops behind every door - gone.
  
• Chachkas and knick nacks on the bookshelves - all gone.
  
• We now have to even be careful where we set down a glass of water because little tiny hands want to grab everything within reach.
  
• The cat food - I am certain that Trent will deprive the cats of their food in the near future.
• Those little covers you put on all the outlets - they are hard to get off when you actually want to use the outlet, AND worse, we have a tendency to leave the cover on the floor next to the outlet, which is a prime target for a kid to chew on.
  
• The cat box. I dread to think about this one!
  
• The office. oh my! we're just going to have to put a gate across it so he can't get in.
  
• Floor lamps. I'm not sure what to do about this one. He's interested in them. He looks at the bases and then up at the light, but he hasn't made a grab for the actual posts yet.
  
• The trash can. We used to stack things that wouldn't fit in the can, such as cereal boxes, etc, on the side until we were ready to take the trash out. Got to rethink that one.
  
• Things that he could pull on top of himself - like the book shelf - now secured to the wall with anchors and screws.
  

There's probably a whole bunch more things that I haven't discovered/considered yet. But I can't help but wonder how we all managed to grow up without major incident because baby proofing is a relatively new concept, or at least all of the tools and accessories we have today are. Baby proofing is no substitute for discipline, and so I'm hoping that I can use a combination of the two to avert disaster.

Last night, Trent had some trouble getting to sleep, which is quite unusual for him, and after about 10 - 15 minutes of letting him cry it out, I snook upstairs to peek in and see what his problem was, to find him standing up in the crib! this is new. Yesterday morning, Brian went in to his room to get him up, and he was just sitting up in his crib! also new.

Some of the fun things about Trent crawling:

• His face lights up when he does it and he looks really pleased with himself.
  
• It's really cute to see his little butt from behind.
  
• He crawls from the other side of the room just to knock down the tower of blocks we built for him. So playtime is more fun for us, too.
  
• He cracks up when the cats go near and chases them all by himself.
  
• My back hurts less because I don't have to walk him around the house as much.

And one final thing to mention on this very Trent-centric blog - He's mastering the stairs. Going up holding my hands, he knows to lift a leg up and over each step and then mummy pulls him up. On the way down he steps off and giggles when he lands on the next step. I'm not sure if it's good or bad to get him used to the stairs so early. I might be creating a problem for myself when he tries to do it himself, or I might be helping him get comfortable. All I know is we have fun doing it.