4:30 AM snack of gum balls? Don’t mind if I do!
I’m not asking for advice. I simply wanted to share this story of a very naughty little boy named Noah James.
I finally have Jonah sleeping through the night. Pretty much, anyway. He’ll get up once, but goes right back to sleep, usually without slurping on deez boobs. Unless I’m engorged, in which case I make him slurp on deez boobs as to avoid mastitis. But I digress.
Take one guess what happened. If you guessed that now Noah is now getting up during the night, you would be correct.
Noah has been the best sleeper of all our children. He loves sleeping and goes right down with zero work on my part. This has been the case since he was, oh, a few months old.
This all changed a couple weeks ago when he decided it would be awesome and cute to get out of bed several times (a) at bed time and (b) throughout the night. Not awesome. Not cute.
Tuesday around 4:30 AM, I was dreaming of reproduction when I was suddenly and rudely awakened by a large crash. My house was still pitch black and I quickly prayed it was not an armed intruder. I went into the kitchen, flipped on the light, and found Noah standing in the middle of the kitchen with approximately 6-7 gum balls crammed into his mouth. He smiled gleefully with greenish-blue drool running down his chin. I snatched the gum wad out of his mouth, threw it away, spanked his butt diaper, and put him back in bed. Then I slept for 4 more hours.
The kicker of this story is where Noah found the gum balls. That little sneak climbed up FIVE shelves in our pantry and reached all the way to the back of the shelf. I had foolishly thought he wouldn’t find the gum balls there. Little did I know.
Oh dear.
that’s why 2 year olds should be in cribs. i’m just sayin…
oh no, sounds like you did the silly thing I did… took Noah out of his crib! I super-regret moving Lula to a big girl bed. This is soooooo funny!
sounds just like his Daddy! ahahahahahaha!
Erica, I only have one crib. Someone else is using it: Jonah. Noah had no choice but to move to the big boy bed.
i got one for $20, craigslist….
wait.. i thought jonah was in the pack-n-play?
I don’t have anywhere to PUT a second crib, even if I did find one for $20. Jonah is sometimes in the pack-n-play, sometimes in the crib. We’re “transitioning” now. But I couldn’t transition until I weened Noah off the crib. It’s complicated.