We switched Olive from a crib to a toddler bed this week and she seems to be enjoying her new-found freedom at the expense of our kid-less down time.
The first night she arrived in our room wearing her cousin Tess's hand-me-down tutu.
On Wednesday night she escaped fifteen times. Twice into her brother's room, tiptoeing with a pair of sneakers in her hand. She found me in the kitchen another time and smiled up at me with two pacifiers in her mouth. On the tenth attempt she put her plastic riding horse Rody in her bed, as if she was trying to fake me out: See Mom, I'm sleeping, really, I swear.
Tonight Nick put a gate across the door and when I just checked on her after hearing what sounded like pacifiers skidding across the wood floor, she stood behind the plastic gate, fully naked. "Oh no," she said, "Offif stuck!" Olive stuck.
Exactly.
Happy Friday!
I'm sorry(not really), but 'Offif stuck' is just too precious! Have a great weekend!
Posted by: Lee | 04/21/2012 at 05:43 AM
I think we called it Baby Jail! Good luck!
Posted by: Shelley | 04/21/2012 at 06:45 AM
Glad you figured out a way to get a little sleep!
Posted by: Ginna | 04/21/2012 at 01:44 PM
Please tell me you are trying to laugh at these moments because if they were on film you could laugh them all the way to the bank! Does Elias wake up when she comes in his room? I used to find my kids in the same single bed together when I would check on them and it just made me melt! Oh and remember what the "nanny" on t.v. says..."DON"T make eye contact!" as you guide them back to bed. Easier said than done!
Posted by: fleming | 04/23/2012 at 09:57 AM
Oh I'm laughing and pulling my hair out all at once. Elias, luckily, sleeps like a brick but he did decided he wants to go to bed with his door closed now, instead of cracked open, so she can't sneak in, which makes me happy. And Olive seems to be adjusting to her bed, snaking out less each night, (fingers and toes crossed)...
Posted by: Christy | 04/24/2012 at 10:51 PM