The Jumper

Clara is now crawling, pulling herself up on her knees, and generally getting into everything.

So it was in equal parts for her amusement and containment that we acquired a Jolly Jumper.

Unfortunately, though, our apartment lacks any sort of lintel trim on its handful of doors, which presents a problem for installing the clamp.

“No problem,” I thought, “I’ll just put up some trim, and away we’ll go!”

But then, if I’m getting out the tools for this anyway, why not just hang the thing somewhere we can minimize the likelihood of wall-bashing, and maximize the fun?

A quick Home Hardware trip later, and we’ve got a beastly new hook in the middle of the living room. I confirmed with a stud finder that the fire alarm was in a joist, and put our new hook in the same one. I swung briefly from it myself just to confirm–if it can support 180 lbs of daddy, it should be good for 16 lbs of Clara, no matter how jollily she jumps.

I don’t think she really gets it yet, but we’ll give her a few more chances and see how it goes.

Boing.