Baby Jail

Olivia loves to get into anything and everything she's not suppose to.  It's human nature right?!  Why else does a newly crawling baby head right to the outlets?  or the cords? or anything else they are not suppose to touch?

For a while we were pushing our oversided ottoman around to use as a shield--in front of the TV, to block off the kitchen, etc.  It was sorting of working, but it was getting old and she was figuring out ways around things.

We decided it was time for a baby jail.  Almost all of her toys are in what is suppose to be the dining room.  We spend a lot of time in there playing.  We wanted to keep her in there.  It's nice too, because now if I need to run to the bathroom or grab a bag of groceries from the car, I have somewhere to put her instead of giving her free reign.

Also, Michael and I were sick of always having to sit on the floor.  We switched out the table (which we rarely use and was causing issues with Olivia) with our chair.

We ended up getting the gate from Wal-mart.  We priced it out and that is the best we could find.  It can be made into a octagon, but we just use it to block off one room.  It works for us.