February
2007
Cribless, Day 14
It’s actually now Day 17, I wrote this at Day 14 and never put it up.
WOW! I really thought I would make this a more consistent post. Maybe for me this is consistent! Well, it’s been 14 days and a lot has happened. By day 4 the boys seemed to be getting things down. We realized that we had to put them down a little bit later (1/2 hour or so). Normally they might chat or play before they fell asleep, but with the whole room available to them, it was just too exciting to fall asleep. By the fourth day they fell asleep right away and slept the whole night through! Woo Hoo! That was a Thursday, Friday we left for a weekend in Jasper. The boys did well in the cribs there, except that Sunday morning I awoke to Drew tugging on my foot. He had crawled out of his crib, barely 3 feet from me and I didn’t even hear him! Unfortunately it was also 6:45 am. 
The boys came home from the weekend with colds and have been sick ever since, so that’s completely thrown off their sleeping. We’ve been going in to them at least 3 times a night, often more. I realized how used I had gotten to getting a full nights sleep! We’re tired! Hopefully as the boys get to feeling better, they’ll sleep better too. Although we do have some funny stories…
Their room doesn’t have a closet, so when we originally set it up Mike built a little add on between their dresser and the wall. It has a top shelf and a bottom shelf, and a rod right under the top shelf where we hang coats and sweaters, there is no door on it. One night they weren’t going to sleep so I went to check on them. Bran was hiding in the closet holding all the clothes still on their hangers while Drew was running around the room with a short, thick, wooden rod. It kind of looked like he was waving a light saber! It was both hilarious and scary, while I was laughing all I could think was “I thought we babyproofed this room!” Apparently not, a few mornings later Mike went in to get them and found another surprise. We have a wooden, giraffe shaped shelving unit in their room. It’s about their height and has two shelves with 3 cloth boxes on each shelf. The top has a small shelf for books, etc. We didn’t attach it to the wall because it’s not heavy and they’ve pulled it over without incident before. When Mike walked in, the shelf was about 2 feet from the wall and Drew was shaking it back and forth…and Bran was sitting on top of it! I think they could make a hazzard out of anything. 
