A Box of Goodies!

When you think you just got enough of your screaming and jumping baby... here's a good trick to keep him or her quite...

Saturday mornings... I really would appreciate some quite time sipping my hot tea or decaf coffee or even hot chocolate... whatever it is that I am going to drink... I would really appreciate it being still hot and sipped in a quite corner.

Of course, Vlad wakes up about an hour before I function, so here's my secret to keep him busy:

• Put some toys, rubber spoon, etc into an empty tissue box (choose the one with plastic coverage to avoid baby getting paper cuts).
• Show Vlad how to take it out once, shake, rattle and give it to him.
• Voila, an hour of silence (okay some grunting permitted).

PS: rubber spoons are the best since they are longer than the opening of the tissue box, requiring the baby to tilt the object - this takes longer to figure out when they are only about 10 months old!