No Furniture Necessary
We've been having problems with the girls throwing all the clean clothes around their room when they should be sleeping. Sometimes they play with the clothes before they go to sleep, sometimes its after they wake up, but they always do it stealthily, they make no noise at all because they know they're being bad.
We've had this changing table since they were born with two open shelves below it where we keep their clothes in large baskets. The girls were so bad about taking those clothes and throwing them about that the baskets have been living in the family room for a couple weeks. Then the other night we hear a big boom and go into the room to see one of the girls on the floor with a stunned look on her face and the changing table laying on the ground. She had climbed up on top and apparently toppled over with it so the changing table has now been relegated to the garage, which solves one problem but not the problem of where to store the clothes.
My mother-in-law found a neat dresser at a consignment store for $20 so now we've got that in the girls room, already bulging at the seams of course, and we hear another loud boom in the room while putting the babies down for the night last night. This time it was Jacob, our oldest, who had pulled the top drawer out then yanked and the whole thing fell over on top of him. He cried but thankfully only his feelings were hurt! Anyway, bedtime was then immediately put on hold until daddy got the drill out and attached the dresser to the wall. I'm glad we don't have to worry about that any longer, but wonder how long it'll take the girls to simply open the drawers and "decorate" the floor again. Guess our next step will be to take all the furniture out of the room and leave them their mattresses
We've had this changing table since they were born with two open shelves below it where we keep their clothes in large baskets. The girls were so bad about taking those clothes and throwing them about that the baskets have been living in the family room for a couple weeks. Then the other night we hear a big boom and go into the room to see one of the girls on the floor with a stunned look on her face and the changing table laying on the ground. She had climbed up on top and apparently toppled over with it so the changing table has now been relegated to the garage, which solves one problem but not the problem of where to store the clothes.
My mother-in-law found a neat dresser at a consignment store for $20 so now we've got that in the girls room, already bulging at the seams of course, and we hear another loud boom in the room while putting the babies down for the night last night. This time it was Jacob, our oldest, who had pulled the top drawer out then yanked and the whole thing fell over on top of him. He cried but thankfully only his feelings were hurt! Anyway, bedtime was then immediately put on hold until daddy got the drill out and attached the dresser to the wall. I'm glad we don't have to worry about that any longer, but wonder how long it'll take the girls to simply open the drawers and "decorate" the floor again. Guess our next step will be to take all the furniture out of the room and leave them their mattresses










PERFECT SOLUTION!!! Mattresses on the floor and dresser drawers closed with ties or something they can't open would be perfect! Little scamps!
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