Welcome to our gated community

A couple of weeks ago, we pulled out the baby gates we got for Christmas to see the effort required to set them up. We were still using activity centers and other toys to block off the two exits to the play room. And not wanting to install the brackets that weekend, we decided the current situation was fine for now...

Within the past week or so, Alex started to learn how to crawl through the bottom of the activity center and escape! They had been reaching under there, but never sure enough to go all the way through. Now Logan can do the same. Time to install the gates.

It didn't take too long, but the first set of hardware that came with the gate wasn't as strong as I was with the hammer. So, we took the boys to Lowes for more hardware (the gate at the top of the stairs needed fixed too as we could pull part of it out of the wall). After that, it worked much better. Now we have one exit blocked off. The other is still open (hoping to get another gate for there this week - no hardware to install this time), but one exit is easier to guard than two!