The games have started

Keagan has been enthralled with our TV for some time now.  It's not that he likes to sit and stare at it aimlessly.  For the most part, IF the TV is on, he ignores it.  There have been two things he has liked doing.  First, he likes to push the power button on the cable box.  I'm pretty sure it's the first button he learned to push and it has a neat light around the button that changes color whenever he pushes it.  Second, ever since he has learned to pull himself up, he has pulled himself up on the TV stand.  That's not a huge deal, but now he shakes our weak stand and wobbles the TV; dangerous for everyone.  So, when we are playing in the living room I try my best to keep him away from the TV stand all together.   This, however, is not so easy.  


My strategy has been one of deterrence and distraction...if I can keep him occupied on other things and inhibit him from going to the cable box and pulling himself up on the TV stand, then I win.  


So now we play this game where Dad builds a wall of toys and obstacles around the TV stand and Keagan tries to go through or around the wall using brute force, or dismantle it into smaller more manageable pieces over a long period of time (breaking down the wall, as it where).  Usually the small toy box, ferris wheel, farm and drum do the trick, but as he has gotten bigger and smarter I've had to add to my arsenal.  I now use his dinosaur toy, bean bag and a blue basket from Sara's classroom.  Of course this is not enough and Keagan breaks through to where he can stand, turn, smile at Mom, shake the TV stand and make the TV wobble.


Sara was able to take some pictures today of Keagan conquering the wall...

Dismantle...

Success! 

Just one of the many games he and I will play.