Time to balance

Joel has been crawling everywhere and holding onto every piece of furniture to stand.  We didn't  have a closed area where he can do that without us being after him, so he didn't get hurt, and even though we tried to cover the sharp corner from our coffee table it wasn't enough because there is a tempting fire place, the chair where the keyboard is, and the cables -which he loves to get into as well.  So we re-arranged the living room and finally decided to get rid off the coffee and end tables.  We like them a lot but they are not toddler-friendly.  Maybe it doesn't look as nice but at least is a little bit safer than before, so now he can play and walk around holding onto the couch and some new ottomans that Tom got to have some extra soft areas to hold on.

Now Joel is working on balancing himself and he loves it, he thinks he's playing a game or something but he gets really excited every time he does it, and he's doing it more often, so hopefully he will start walking soon.  He will be so happy - every time he accomplishes something he is a happier baby.

 He started with five seconds probably, and now he is around fifteen, increasing...yay!

  Besides the window everything else is more soft to hold onto.

 Here he was trying...

Joel did it!!!

(Sorry about the quality but our camera doesn't get good shots inside compared to the outside) 

Finally, here are the tables, and it's time to say good bye, hopefully we can sell them, if not they will to end up at Goodwill or Salvation Army, too bad we don't have D.I. around here. In one of the pictures you can see the green stuff we put around the coffee table but it didn't last that much!