Child Safety

We try to be safe. Done all the usual "child proofing" things like baby gates at the tops and bottoms of stairs, foam covering for the edges and corners of hard tables, keep small items out of the reach of little hands, put outlet covers on everywhere. It's this final one that that had a small backfire last night/this morning.

Last night, John was playing with a package of outlet covers. They are perfect safe to play with. He was shaking them around and dumping them out of the package and then we were putting them back in and he'd dump them again. He held onto that package and was playing with them while I was getting him in his jammies, and I told him when I laid him down they were all going to fall out on him. They did. No big deal -- just put them back in the package again, got John into his sacko, and he was off and running and played a bit more before book time.

Then we did our usual book time in the glider, he drank his milk, and went to bed. Usual night.
Then this morning he woke up a bit earlier than normal these days (like 6:15am) and was crying. Tom went to get him and they did their usual routine of John getting his diaper changed (he stays in his jammies til after breakfast), got some milk and went downstairs to watch a Curious George and play.

Our nanny came, fed him breakfast, John went potty, continued to play...all the usual stuff.

Then our nanny took John upstairs to get him dressed and when they came back down she told me John had somehow gotten an outlet cover inside each of his jammie feet! Now, that means he had them in there when he was playing last night, when we had book time, while he slept, explains the waking up early and crying (OUCH!), means he had them in there through a diaper change, breakfast, potty time, playing...

I think everyone knows what an outlet cover looks like, but just in case:
Somehow I managed to take child-proofing a bit too far. Oh I felt so guilty!! Poor little guy!! At least I didn't somehow manage to strap a safety gate into his diaper.