Babyproofing and a soft soft chair

As most of you know, in this household we really like books.  Babies + easily torn pages don't mix very well though, so we've mostly had our bookcases barricaded off so Nikolai couldn't get to them.  Also, we were pretty worried he'd crawl over to them and try to pull them over, so we reaaaallly wanted to make sure he couldn't hurt himself on them either.  So on Saturday, we took alllllll the books off the shelves so we could bolt the bookshelves to the walls and then put the books back on, leaving the bottom shelves bare and therefore safe for Nikolai to play around. 

This is all our books, piled on the dining room table.  SO MANY BOOKS!  We might have an addiction... ;D

After we reorganized the shelves, we noticed that Nikolai had finally discovered the wonder of our yellow chair.  

It was fun to eat...

...fun to hide behind....

...and apparently very soft! 

Isn't he sweet? :D