Let's start with the crib shenanigans, shall we?
This all started Thursday evening when R & E were banished to their cribs for getting into Badger's dog food and wasting it all over the floor. All. over. the. floor. Millions of little pellets all over my floor! They then preceded to "swim" in the food, throw the food, crush the food, and Good Lord only knows if they managed to sneak a bite or two! They only way that I was going to be able to clean up the mess was if they were out of the way. In our house that means, ahem meant that they would be put into their cribs. So I put them in the cribs, leaving the door open,
'cause hey why wouldn't I? I clean up the massive mess of dog food that was all.over.my.floor and then go back to the boys' room to free, I mean get, them. Much to my surprise they met me at the kitchen door! I have to admit that it scared the bejeebus outta me! I am easily spooked and I was not expecting this at all! They were quiet as a mouse too! I didn't hear a peep out of them. Once I picked my jaw up from the floor and calmed my racing heart, I wanted to see just how they managed this. I put them back in and they were happy to show me their new trick. I wanted to show their daddy so I put them in for a third time and then took the pictures.
We didn't convert the cribs that night, so there was a whole lotta going into their room to put them back in the crib. I knew that we had to convert. Even though they can land on their feet I knew it was too risky to chance. What if they landed the wrong way? We had cushions surrounding the cribs, but it was just a temporary fix.
So after we remembered where we put the other rails Daddy P converted the cribs to the toddler beds.
I made a big deal out of the new "big boy beds" and showed them to R & E. They were interested but not that impressed. The first night they actually slept extremely well. I dare to say that first night was perfect! They got out of bed once, we told them to get back in and that was it....lights out. Parker seemed to think that maybe since the challenge of climbing out the cribs was gone that they didn't care anymore. Ummmm, okay: sounded good to me. I was just happy that they didn't play all night.Night two. I'm feeling very optimistic about bed time. (Even though nap time was a complete disaster!) I still believed that nighttime would be a piece of cake. I bathed my Peas, kissed them good night and put them to bed.
Now you can't tell me this isn't the cutest thing ever...
And this too! I mean really, can these two be any cuter?Let me just say, two hours after these pictures were taken I was NOT smiling. I literally had to go into that bedroom every five minutes for two hours! In and out the bed.....RYAN went. Ryan, not Evan. My sweet, obedient Ryan was on a rampage for two hours! Evan really really wanted to sleep, but Ryan kept bothering him! Ryan kept climbing into Evan's bed, snatching Evan's blanket off, talking to Evan....you name it he did it! He was in his closet, playing with a shoe. driving a car around....everything except sleep! Long story short, it was a mess! No matter what I did he kept getting out of his bed and into Evan's bed. Finally I gave in. The last time I went in I put him into Evan's bed. Five minutes later I saw this:
The poor thing just wanted to sleep with his brother! I suppose I should have taken Ryan out and put him into his own bed. I was too sleepy to think straight though! I was just so happy that he was asleep that I didn't want to rock the boat. I woke up at 4am to find Ev Man sleeping on top of the cushion that we had on the floor. Poor baby; there's no telling how long he had been like that. Whoops! I put him into Ryan's bed since Ryan had completely taken over Evan's and went back to sleep myself. The next morning Evan woke up first (as always) and was waiting at the door for me to open it. He wouldn't leave out because he wanted Ryan to come. He ran back to Ryan's bed calling Ryan's name. He had no clue that he had just gotten out of Ryan's bed and that Ryan was asleep in his bed! Ha! Never a dull moment around here, y'all never a dull moment!
