Notes from the crib

George is growing too fast. In the last week, he's outgrown his shoes, he's had two more teeth start to come in, he mastered undressing himself (diaper included), and he figured out how to get out of his crib. For a few days we've noticed him trying to put his feet up on the crib rail. Yesterday I walked in on George jumping up and down in his crib (instead of napping) and he had braced his arms on the crib rail and had his legs parallel to the mattress and even with the top of the crib rail. If he'd only perfected forward motion, he'd have propelled himself straight out of the crib. I settled him back down and told him to stop growing up so fast. He grinned at me and said, "No!".

A few minutes later I checked back on him and he had his leg, hip, and arm up over over the crib rail and was yelling what sounded a lot like "Fly! Fly!" I immediately scooped him up and plopped him in the living room with his toys while I tried to remember where the toddler bed conversion parts were stored. I finally found them after climbing into the attic and I proceeded to dismantle the crib and build the toddler bed. After that was done, I had to clear out George's room of anything he might get in to - toys that need supervision, the rocking chair, the garbage can and diaper pail. As I was doing that, George came back in to the room and immediately started checking out his new bed. He gathered up a bunch of his favorite toys and started throwing them in, and made a stash of pacifiers in the corner. He seemed to enjoy playing in it, but he wanted nothing at all to do with napping - in the bed or out of it. So by the time DH got home from work, George and I were both exhausted. We ate dinner and George just about fell asleep at the table, so we quickly got him ready for bed and put him down. And he climbed out. We put him back in, and he climbed out again. It took about two hours for him to finally give up and go to sleep. Many tears were shed. The good news is that he seemed to sleep well in the bed and didn't fall out. Today he's down for a nap in the crib, but I did cheat and wear him out first so he was already sleeping when I put him down.