As Brandon and I get more than a week into our toddler beds with the boys we are ALL overtired, cranky and over the process. The under three foot crowd handles their lack of sleep much like us over three foot crowd would like to.
Top 10 Reasons Toddlers have to Meltdown (all happened in about 20 minutes today)
10. I don't want to stay in my new bed
9. You gave me raisins but I wanted pretzels
8. You did not let me open the pretzel bag on my own
7. You didn't open the pretzels in a timely manner (i.e, under 2 seconds)
6. My brother took/gave me something I clearly didn't want
5. my mom/dad took or gave me something I did not want
4. You left the room
3. You turned off my cartoons
2. I don't like when you make dinner in the kitchen and I am in the living room...
1. I woke up from a nap and I just don't like you right now.
*** Bonus reason: I want to put my boots on myself but when I can't get them on (since I have them on the wrong foot) I blame you and scream at you both for helping and not helping.
The toddler bed transition has made Brandon and I swear we will not have more kids since those newly birthed children will someday turn two and need to move from a crib to a toddler bed. Christian screamed the first night so long and hard and absolutely nothing we could do would calm him down. He ended up sleeping a few minutes with his face pressed against the baby gate we had to move in front of his room door. He slept on the hardwoods all night long.
We ordered the wrong conversion kit for the cribs so it took extra time, effort and many trips to the baby store to locate a temporary fix until my real ones arrived. They have ripped out outlets in their room, torn down paintings, ripped out a shelf and broke into the bathroom and turned on the steaming hot water and soaked their woobies in the hot water. We can't baby gate their bathroom since the door is so narrow.... and the saga always continues. Right now we have everything rigged to not move or break but it is only a matter of time before they outsmart me again.
Due to lack of sleep I have now had the terrible cold floating around twice. I finally broke down and went to the doctor last Saturday when I woke up at 4am stuffy. At 530a I sneezed and threw my neck out and couldn't look right or left. Thank goodness Brandon was here so I could go to care now and get fixed up.
The boys have finally started napping again (they took about a week off with the bed change) and I think we are slowly moving out of the woods.
Since I can't be all negative here are two cute/sweet things the boys have done lately. Brock sat on the floor with me at bedtime tonight and closed his hands and did the lords prayer with mommy. He also sang a song into his karaoke machine about mommy and daddy tonight. Priceless. Christian loves to tell me all the words he knows and tonight (and just about every night) opens a book and says all the wonderful things he has learned. He also kisses mommy boo-boos every time he sees one (even if it is a permanent scar). Oh, and they both say mommy when they see a model in a magazine. Very flattering. Once they said mommy when Al Roker was doing the weather on the Today show.... I am sure that was a fluke :)
Hope everyone has enjoyed our warm up to Christmas!!! Keep my Aunt Barbara and Brandon's mom Karen in your prayers this Christmas as they face much worse than a couple of sleep deprived toddlers.
