My almost 1 yo dd is now in a cage!

[Pembo]

Well sort of! In our new house she can get into too much. Even when I gate her she find something to get into! So today we bought the Superyard XT. Basically it is 6 gates that all hook together to form a hexagon. If you've ever seen the Rugrats, it's what they keep the babies in.

She screamed for the first 15 mins, then we showed her how she can "walk" around and play. She did settle after a bit. I sure hope she gets used to it. I may be able to get something accomplished while she is awake.

Kids, gotta love 'em.

 

[Princess Michelle]

Let's just hope she doesn't figure out how to get out of it and get into the kind of mischeif those Rugrats do.

 

[TIdoublegaER]

This is what my DD's old babysitter uses too. It worked out really well. She could "gate" off the kids who were napping so the someone didn't fall onto the sleeping ones, or to keep the toddlers away from the infants.

 

[Spinning]

We had one for our DD! IT was great! I would hang things on it! I also would put it in front of the sofa so she had a little more room! She loved when I would put the dog in with her! Gotta love the moving!

 

[Princess_Aurora]

I've been wanting to get one, but we have a really small living room so it would take up a lot of space. But he usually doesn't mind staying in his play pen.

 

[browneyes]

Does this mean your dd is an honorary Rugrat?

 

[Pembo]

I'm hoping she'll be like Kimmi and not like Angelica!

 

[browneyes]

I've given my dd the nickname Angelica many, many times when she's playing with her cousins.

 

[Claudia1]

We have one, too, for DGD and it is great. Quite stable and she loves to walk around in it.

Once she started crawling and pulling herself up, her playpen became a prison. She likes to move!

DD changes the shape of the "pen" every few days, just to keep it interesting.

 

[philaround]

Originally posted by Princess_Aurora
I've been wanting to get one, but we have a really small living room so it would take up a lot of space. But he usually doesn't mind staying in his play pen.

Just wait until he learns to climb out of the playpen. My DGS was trying to climb out of his playpen for over 2 months and finally did it 2 weeks ago. My DD immediately retired the playpen to the basement. Luckely he hasn't figured out how to get over the door gate yet.