My 14m stunt woman DD2 is making me tear my hair out! She's been walking and climbing for ages now, but I'm having trouble coping with some of her new tricks. She's attracted to everything she shouldn't have (which I would expect) like the phone/remote/baby monitor/laptop. But the steps I take to childproof are becoming increasingly less effective as she finds ways around them. She will drag and stack chairs and toys so that she can climb on them to reach worktops. Or climb on the toybox to try to remove a large painting from the wall. I think we have maybe a couple of weeks before she works out how to get over the safety gates by dragging chairs up to them. She also does daredevil tricks like climbing onto the arm of the sofa and doing flips onto the cushions. Or diving (literally) into her ball pool.
With the horrible weather, we've been stuck indoors a lot which means she's had to spend most of her time in the lounge to avoid her climbing into the washing machine or escaping out the dog flap, amongst other tricks. But even then I can't get anything done because I'm having to stop her climbing on to the fishtank or onto the back of the furniture. I know I need to watch her like a hawk, but I also have DD1(nearly 3) to occupy as well.
What can I do? Short of removing all of the furniture, I'm just not sure how to keep her safe. She's to young to understand the naughty step and if I say "no" she thinks it's funny. Anybody else have daredevil babies?