"It happens to everybody"??? I don't think so
Sounds too complicated to me. The worst I get in a day is having too much on my little tables or imagined tables (I have a high chair next to me here acting as a "table") and keep knocking off eye glasses or pens or dum dum lolipops :-) My cats sound less dangerous than you!
I do like that the baby got into it; that sounds like it wasn't quite all your doing. Besides, you avoided the trouble the men would have gotten into if they didn't have this "project" to work on together, LOL.