Parenting Help, Please!

We're having a problem with Malcolm getting up at night ('round 3am to 4am) and coming out to the living room, booting up rock band, hauling out toys, turning on the computer. Just happy as a clam, playing as if it were 8am, and he were doing us the favor of playing peacefully so we can lay in. Except, of course, it's freakin four in the morning!!!!!? i've booby trapped the hall (think laundry basket full of spoons balanced on a box blocking the hallway, and he still makes it out without waking us up. Unplugging the TV kept him off rock band. But he climbed my desk to get my laptop down from where I hid it. I hid the laptop in our bedroom, and he went for the toy box. Grrrr. I was thinking of trying a baby gate across the hallway . . . with jingle bells attached.

I think tonight i'm going to put the dog crate sideways blocking the whole hall, then cover the top with . . . . with . . . . um . . . . tacks? No, wait, bad parenting! Not tacks . . . . glue?

Any suggestions?

Wanted: Advice, please!

Hello to all our Readers!

Warning:  today's post contains some frank talk about poop.  You've been warned.  Read on at your choice.

For all the parents, aunts, uncles, babysitters, and otherwise experienced persons out there -- how do you stop the blow out diapers?!?!?

What makes me ask?  Here's the whole scoop:

Problem One:  a couple months ago, Malcolm started putting his hand in the back of his diaper while he slept, and came out with handfuls of poop.  (Which he thought was lotion, so promptly rubbed it on his arms, legs, and hair.  Yuck!)

Solution:  We started putting onsie undershirts on him, under his clothes/jammies, that snapped at the crotch, so he couldn't get into his diaper.  Ta-Dah, perfect fix!

Problem Two:  A couple weeks ago, he learned to take his pants off, and go in the side of the onsie.  Mommy's little problem solver.

Solution:   Haven't really come up with one yet.  Advice, please?  

But, wait, there's more.

Problem Three:  He's now on the super-antibiotic for his ear infection, which means some rather loose-poop.  Yesterday morning, and this morning the diapers were big messy blowouts.  Yesterday was a mess, but all I needed was some extra wipes, and a run of laundry.  We even managed to make it to school on time.  Today, though . . . .  UGH!  It was everywhere!  He greeted me with "Mommy!  Play-doh!" and showed me two big fistfuls and how they squish.  By the time I got him cleaned up and ready for school (I had to change my clothes, too!) he was quite late.  Then I had to come back home (so much for my errands!) and get all the laundry started, and break out the clorox wipes to scrub all the crib bars, the wall, the floor . . . .

Solution:  I don't have one!  Advice, please!!!!  After I get this load of laundry finished, and deliver Malcolm's Elly Bean to school before nap time (she did not survive Poopapalooza), I'm going to go buy diapers one size bigger.  I'm thinking "more room, less 'xplode, right?)  Matthew thinks the onsies are causing it.  I think the antibiotics are partially at fault.

But, what do you think?  And how do I stop this from happening again?!?!?!