February
2007
Cribless, Day 17
The night wakings have gotten worse, but that’s mostly because they have ear infections. So I have to give them some grace on this getting me up in the middle of the night nonsense. However, we’ve had another wrench thrown into our getting them to sleep wihout their cribs. Not only is the room an adventure in itself (they’ve taken to climbing in and up the dresser drawers), now they can open their bedroom door. We have a gate across the door so they can’t get out, but this means they do two things, first they throw all their toys out into the hallway, including soothers and then they play with the door. The biggest fun is waiting until the other brother is standing unawares between the door and the gate and then trying to close the door really hard on him. It creates many crying episodes and little sleeping. Ever since Bran got his finger pinched in the door in the living room, I get really freaked out when I hear them opening and then slamming their door. Unfortunately we’ve had a hard time stopping it. Which means no naps and late bedtimes.
Today I was finally able to get a device that locks the doorknob in place. The door has one of those pull down handles rather than a knob, so this device attaches to the handle so that it won’t pull down and open. Mike is right in the middle of paper deadlines, but graciously put it on for me tonight while I got the boys ready for bed. We smartly attached it to the outside of the door so that we could flip the switch and lock it in place from our side and then unflip it when we wanted to get in (we had a brief moment of insanity when we thought we should put it on the inside). We brought the boys up to bed and I closed the door to keep them in…unfortunately the knob was in the the locked position. So there we all were in the boys room with no way to get out. Toby…remember the time I rescued you from a room? It was pretty much just like that. I noticed that Connie’s car was next door, but couldn’t figure out how to get her attention from the back of our house into hers, it was afterall -16C and she was unlikey to have a window wide open. So Mike took on the role of MacGyver and after a LONG while of using an old door knob, and eventually that wooden lightsaber, as a hammer, he got the hinges off of the door and we got out! It was quite a little fiasco, and I’m still chuckling over it.
But I have to say after all that…it worked! The boys tried a few times to get the door open, couldn’t, and went to sleep! YAY!!! Hopefully naptime tomorrow will be as successful.
