My World Has Turned Upside Down

Well, this is it folks. My life is over because.....Aiden is CRAWLING. How can such a little, innocent baby create such chaos for his poor mom?

Here's how it played out: On Sunday Tom was taking care of Aiden in the morning for a bit while I took a small nap. When I woke up, Tom told me Aiden had been crawling. I basically yawned, ignored him, and thought he was exaggerating on Aiden's inchworm-like moves. So Monday rolls around, Tom goes to work, and Aiden and I go about our business. No crawling involved. We went to the mall with my mom, then came back here so she could fix my still smoking vacuum cleaner. The second she started playing with that vacuum, he started crawling. A bit wobbly still, but real, legitimate, crawling.

So my life flashed before my eyes as I realized what I am now up against. I thought he was trouble before, but he was just getting started. His favorite thing now that he can crawl to anything he wants? Power cords. Yep, my baby apparently likes to flirt with danger. There's numerous things he could get into, like disgusting garbage cans full of dirty Kleenex, or the smelly shoes by the door, but he has picked the worst of all of them as his favorite.

Not 24 hours later were we at Babies R Us stock piling on baby-proofing gear. I even managed to find a nifty cover for the outlets that completely disables him from pulling any plugs out of their damn sockets. It also completely disables me from pulling the plugs out of their sockets, but hey - at least the baby is safe.
I'm sure my baby-proofing days are far from over, but for now I think we're in relatively good shape. Lord help me if he ever decides that the toilet is an awesome place to quench his thirst or flush some of my jewelry.

Luckily, he's still "perfecting" his new art. He doesn't really crawl out of my eyesight (yet) - he just uses it as a way to get to things he can see. I'm not sure that he's figured out that he can get anywhere in the whole house if he pleases, but that's a-okay with me. He's not exactly quick about it yet, either, which is another huge bonus for me. My mom claims that he'll be racing around this place in a week. I sooooo hope she's wrong.

He's growing up way too fast for my liking.