We had a babysitter snafu and Dad had to stay home for part of the day. He put his time to good use by putting up two new baby gates. The "spring-loaded" one was tearing up the paint on the door jamb and the boys are about big enough to pull it down. There is no room for one on the bathroom door (it would block the hall) and keeping the door closed makes the house seem dark. These are fancy retractable gates -- good for 200 lbs of pushing pressure (allegedly). The drawbacks are that they take two hands to open and are too high to comfortably step over. Still we don't have much choice.
