Playpen

We have the playpen set up in the living room for Audrey.  She often cries when we first put her in, but she will go on to spend 20 minutes or so playing in there with her toys.  This is great in the morning when we are trying to eat breakfast.  She can see through the mesh sides and is happiest when Aaron is playing with his cars on the floor in front of the playpen.

Although we have a gate up in the dining room and can close the pocket door to the kitchen to create a giant playpen in the dining room, we cannot trust Aaron to play with Audrey unattended (meaning one of us sitting right next to them to keep him from crushing his sister or pulling her arm off).  So the playpen is one of the safer places we can stick her when we can't be watching her closely.  She's not completely safe in there I've caught Aaron poking her face through the mesh and dropping toys into the playpen, but as long as he's playing with something else, we can let our guard down for a bit.