baby gate olympics.

"Oh hi!  Yes, sorry I missed your call, but I was busy vaulting baby gates!"

Does this happen to you on a daily basis?  It happens to me.  I'm 5 feet tall.  I have three baby gates up.  Only one of which swings open.  You know we cheap.  We're Navy.  We've got busted 10 dollar Wal-mart gates.  I even contemplating sewing one, but that seemed destined to fail.

One of our gates came special ordered from super saver Amazon.  Owen was hell bent on eating dog food, but the opening from the dining room is 6 feet wide!  Enter Amazon.  Unfortunately for Molly she gets stuck on the wrong sides of the gates.  I know she can get over them, she was returned to the dog rescue three times before living with us because she jumped fences.  But we have made her lazy so stranded she is.

Molly get a grip.  This is not a Sara Mclachlan commercial.  

Twinky on the other hand knows how to jump them, but does a Tarzan yell to announce her feline feat before she does.

Vacuuming has become more cumbersome and of course the gates create pet fur tumbleweed traffic jams.  Can we talk about how hard they are to close?  Aren't physicists testing these?  Maybe they test the 30 dollar gates...

Baby gates.  Welcome to mother hood.