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*Blink* Hey, What the hell just happened!?
July 1st, 2008
When The Son was born he was an eight+ pound, wadded up, wriggly, pink blobby. He flailed about, and mewed when he was hungry. I could lay him down and he would, you know, lie there. That was less than two years ago. Now he is well on his way to being potty-trained. He speaks in sentences. He climbs. Oh how does he climb. If it is possible to scale, he is up it. If it is possible to climb out of, he is free.
This has posed a wee, okay, a major, problem at naptime and at night. Instead of sleeping, he is out of his crib in two seconds and is playing with his toys. We thought about just leaving him alone, because he can climb back in, but the child has already had one broken arm, we do not want him to get another when he falls from the high rail of his crib. The Husband took off the side rail to make it into a day bed. When The Son saw it he screamed “Broken, bed broken! Broken Mama! Broken Daddy! WAHHHHHHH!” He was absolutely inconsolable for TWO HOURS. That may be normal for other kids, but not for him. He is not a big crier, and his tantrums usually last less than a minute. We put the rail back on, he calmed down, and he has been napless for the last few days. THIS. HAS. NOT. BEEN. FUN. In fact, this SUCKS.
We tossed around the idea of moving him into a full size bed we already own, but it is just so huge to put him in all by himself. Wah. Mama no likey. So we started googling, and we found this. Granted, we chose it more for how it looks than anything else, but he loves it, and feels like he helped pick it out. It has been ordered, and will be here in a couple of weeks. My baby is not going to be sleeping in a crib. I was sure that I just brought him home yesterday. The first night he slept in the crib instead of the bassinet next to my bed I lay on the floor by him and sobbed. He was just so small! He was dwarfed in that huge crib. He needed to be by me! Or better yet, in my uterus. Sigh. This growing up thing is not cool.
Here he is climbing, of course. This time it is a tree.
2 Responses to “*Blink* Hey, What the hell just happened!?”
Wahhh! Where is our baby!
On this particular day he got out of the truck, looked at the tree and started running towards it.
When I caught up with him he was trying to scale it all by himself, the entire time shouting, “TREE! TREE!”
So, being the proud father that I am, I helped him climb up the tree and shouted for Hey You to come see what The Son had just done……she didn’t believe us. Oh well. better luck next time.