Life as we go it

Liam's been chewing on everything like a little chipmunk these days. He chews on his toys, the furniture, clothes and paper. If he can fit it in his mouth, he chews on it.

Including his crib.

For the past couple of months we've come into his bedroom in the morning and he's standing up, chewing on the side of the crib!

His crib does not have one of those plastic protectors on the top, so there are large areas of white paint missing from the inside of the crib. I hate to admit it, but he's been eating a bit of paint. Not cool.

I brainstormed on how to deter him from chewing on the crib and an idea popped into my head! You know those fleece blankets that people make all of the time, where two different pieces of fabric are tied together around the edge of the blanket? Well, I thought to myself, what if I buy a long piece of fleece and then tie it around the top of the crib?

Liam and I took a trip to Jo Ann Fabrics and bought a strip of brown fleece. I draped the fabric over the long side of the crib and then cut out squares so I could tie the fabric into bows between the rungs.

It worked!

He still chews and sucks on the fabric, but at least he's not consuming little bits of white paint :)

And the brown fabric matches really well with the retro brown/green/blue bed skirt that my grandma made for me.