Once upon a time there lived two small little girls, twin sisters to be exact. Lets call them Clara and Josie. They had a fun life. Playing all day long with toys and their dog max, roaming where ere they wished to roam. Their mother gave them yummy snacks and lots of special treats like Reeses Pieces and Red Vines to eat, and even an occasional sip of...soda! What more could they possibly want or need? Thats right, nothing.Or so their naive mother thought (lets just call her Christin).
Now even though these girls were very little for their age, they did not think they were little. In fact they believed they were BIG GIRLS. Too big to be confined to such things as cribs and play pens. HA they were no match for Clara and Josie!
Christin already knew of her daughters affinity for climbing and had even fantasied that one day they would be world renowned rock climbers, or something like that. She was so proud of her daughters ability. Especially since they were so small and unsuspecting.
However, all of this knowledge did not prepare her for what was to transpire one fateful night...
The girls awoke in the middle of the night - like unto many nights. This was not a big deal, Christin just waits it out and they usually cry for only a moment and go back to sleep. Aw the joys of sleep training! This night Crystal - I mean Christin - was surprised to hear the crying stop very suddenly... Followed by a loud THUMP. "What could that be" she wondered. She got our of bed and opened her bedroom door. What did she see?
HER 14 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER WALKING DOWN THE HALL
What was she to do? How was she to proceed?
Whilst she was sitting there, still in shock, with her spider - monkey - daughter sitting on her lap, she contemplated what do do next. If she put her back in her crib she would just climb out again, and risk serious injury. Scary. If she held her and rocker her to sleep this would destroy the months of sleep training she had done to create such wonderful sleepers. Then, the worst happened. (Ok not the WORST, but almost) Her second daughter awoke and similar events transpired: Crying, crying ceasing, a loud THUMP, daughter walking out of the bedroom.
WHAT IS GOING ON????
Never in a million years did she think that her daughters would learn to climb (or dare I say FALL) our of their cribs. Never in a BILLION years did she think that they would simultaneously learn to do this on the same night. At three o clock in the morning!
So now you ask, what has she done about this? Currently the girls' room is cluttered with various pillows and blankets all around the base of the cribs. That is how it will be for the time being. She is trying to just discipline and nip the climbing thing in the bud. So every time she hears crying at night, she waits by the door until one (or both) try to climb out and then she goes in and sternly says NO NO! Plops them back down in bed. It eventually worked for the past few nights...
If this ends up not working, Walmart sells crib tents!
Moral of the story: Don't underestimate your monkey/children's abilities to do things. Even though they appear to be small, they think they are BIG!
The end.
7 comments:
Oh my goodness you DO have your hands full! This is hilarious! I know it may not be to you - or at least at the moment. You have some smart little cookies there!
Hilarious! My grandma loves to tell us about how my dad used to do this when he was that age. After trying many different things they eventually had to tie a piece of plywood on the top of the crib because he kept climbing out and getting stuck in whatever they would try and use to cover the crib. Good luck with the discipline tactic!
That story is hilarious. You should try your hand at writing in your spare time (HA HA - spare time!). Aidan was the exact same way. It scared me to death the first time I walked in and he was about to climb out so I lowered his crib as far down as it could go. The next time I heard a thump and he was on the floor. I didn't realize until he was crawling around with a limp that his arm was hurt. He got a compounnd fracture and a shiny red cast after that. Luckily the cast hindered him from climbing, which nipped it in the bud until we could get him in a bed. What a nightmare!
seriously...you harass me about not reading this story through this whole day and then I don't even get credit for the solution to your problem....nice.
Hi,
What a fun story to read. Lots of discription and that picture is worth a thousand words of how sweet Jocelynn is!
Keep up the great work in keeping those two active daughters of yours safe!
Love you all!
That is the funniest thing ever! The SAME night? I'm just glad it's you and not me! holy cow.
Maybe some strapped beds. You could like belt them in every night! wow. good luck with that one, "Christin". :)
Oh no! Holy cow, my kids must be a little dumb, because I've never had to deal with that! I think Ryan is the only one that ever figured out how, but not until he was two, and we already had the bunk bed waiting for David to move to the top and Ryan to claim the bottom. I can't believe they figured it out so young! Maybe they worked it out together? Naughty team work!
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