Bearfruit

Last week, around May 2nd or 3rd, my daughter learned to crawl. It’s been a week so now she’s officially at that stage referred to as, “no really, don’t take your eyes off of her!”

So now I’ve got this challenge that so many people before me have faced. How to get her to be stationary for a little bit. This is my brief and whimsical diary of a few experiments.

Attempt one
I’ll call this one, immobilize, I stumbled on it by accident and it worked for a good 30 or 40 seconds. It gave me the inspiration to do this investigation and try to find a technique that would work, possibly for even longer!

As you can see this technique is quite simple because all you have to do is entangle the legs. Unfortunately it is simple but ineffective after the first time. You’ll notice the picture above is a bit blurry… I forgot to flip up the flash on the camera so it chose a slow shutter speed. Quicker than I was able to pop the flash and snap another picture she had escape the entanglement.

Attempt two
Best called distraction, this technique works quite well in certain circumstances. Basically you lay cheerios on the floor in a path that leads nowhere.

Unfortunately there are numerous ways this can go wrong. Also this technique means you will be vacuuming the floor more often than you will be washing your hair.

Attempt three
This attempt was a miserable failure. Nothing more needs to be said - except that I had no idea a 10 month old could lift up a laptop.

Attempt four
The tried and true technique.

It never fails.