First, we sufficiently prep him for several minutes on the events that are about to take place—laying it all out for him in sequential order. We enter his bedroom, place him within his crib and lecture him on the importance of staying put—of staying WITHIN his crib for the duration of the night. He dutifully listens—respectfully nodding at appropriate intervals with his big attentive eyes. We turn out the lights, shut the door and settle in for a quiet evening. My, how lucky we are. Christian obediently heeds our every request. We crack open a book, happy for a little "unwind" time.
But wait!
What's that?
The click of a doorknob and the sound of little feet padding down the hallway?
Can it be?
We rub our eyes, not believing, at first, what we're seeing.
Has little Christian ignored our well-delivered diatribe?
Is that really him standing before us with a huge smile on his face?
Yes, it is!
Unfortunately, Christian has found that he can climb out of his crib on a whim, now.
The above series of events will take place another 15-20 times (only slightly exaggerated) before we're through for the night. Each trip back to the crib is accompanied with reminders of ever increasing sternness and consequences. Sometimes he'll play little tricks on us. He's a sneaky one. Sometimes he'll crawl out of his crib and won't come out of his room. We'll find him in a corner, cheerfully looking at books or playing with toys
Can we tie him to the crib?
Hmmm......maybe.
But, lest you think that this story is only to elicit feelings of sympathy, I've posted photos of Christian, below. This, my friends, is what happens when a two year old spends too much time climbing out of his crib at night.
Thanks to Maren for taking these photos.
8 comments:
You are a great story teller. Those pictures sure made me giggle.
Sorry man.
It's good to know the Andersons struggle too, you know, you being in the bishopric and all.
I thought maybe you got special blessings.
Maybe the special blessings are in other areas and you still have to deal with regular stuff like us regular people LOL
Maybe it's to keep you at our level!
Ok I"ll be quiet now.
Funny, but my word verification is "baying"....right here on the post of Bay Christian. He looks soooo adorable sleeping away. Oh, and I do remember those days with a couple of other little "bays".
One more comment: Please help me with the acronym LOL: It could be a variety of phrases: "Lots of Love" "Laugh Out Loud" "Leader of Lunatics" "Lots of Luck" "Land 'O Lakes" "Loads of Loot"
"Learn Our Language" "Linger Outside Longer"....well, you get the idea. I've never learned what those 3 letter mean! Help me out here!
Oh, and one more thing....thanks for coming back to life. I've missed you!!
His sneaky escapes and even the reading with a smile in the corner sound just like Paige!
We've made the switch to the "big-bed" and thankfully it's been quite successful.
Good luck on limited times returning him to bed each night.
I soooo remember those times. It's hard to get mad at them when they sit and read a book quietly in their room. Good luck! One day he will go to bed. Or maybe not. I have a 15 year old that still won't stay in his bed.
Pretty dang cute!
Be glad he waited until he was almost 2 years old. My loving hubby taught all of ours to do so by 18 months old if they hadn't learned how already. Go figure. (That doesn't surprise those who know him). It definitely is painful when it does happen. I remember the pain. Actually, unfortunately for us, the pain goes on. Most nights I wish there were REALLY big boy cribs (though that might be too much like prison, wouldn't it?) We still have problems with ours and they're 9 and 4!
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