Things Wyatt has been caught doing when he should be sleeping...
Puttering around in his room by the light of his turtle stars nightlight (if the timer has already turned off, he just turns it back on so he can see what he's doing).
Dumping every last book onto the floor, even tearing out a few pages of one of them. More than once, I have gone into his room to find him sitting in the middle of a sea of books.
Sneaking into Hadley's room to dump an armload of robots in her crib. Incidentally, she was sleeping in it at the time, although not for long. Imagine waking up from a peaceful slumber to find you are being attacked by an army of robots.
Peering out the window and remarking on all the snow outside (at 11pm)
Dumping an entire basket of Thomas trains in the toy room (in the dark). CRASH!! When I stage whispered, what in the world are you doing!? He calmly replied "I'm tryin' to find Gordon."
Banging around in the bathroom, rummaging in drawers. "I just gotta brush my teeth, mommy. I'm tryin' to find toothpaste."
Smearing Butt Paste (a zinc oxide based diaper cream) all over his face, shirt and pants. Despite repeated soakings, the shirt and pants are now ruined.
Lurking around in the hallway (at 4am). I have no idea what mischief he had planned, but thankfully I woke up and caught him. He panicked when he saw me and hightailed it back to his room, flinging open the door and diving into bed.
Like most childhood phases, I'm sure "this too, shall pass". Luckily, he's pretty trustworthy so I don't have to worry about him burning down the house or roaming around the neighborhood.
3 comments:
Now days kids get their own room and big bed pretty quickly. My mom took a picture of me still sleeping in my baby bed at age 6!! I am 8 yrs. older than my sister so no one pushed me out. this bed is the very unsafe iron one where the up and down pieces are to far apart. The picture had my legs hanging out between the up and downs. All of us 3 kids were raised in that bed, my 2 kids, my sister's 2 kids and my brother's 2 kids, then the bed became unsafe so my sister in law had it bronzed and she has it full of stuffed animals in her hall up stairs. It really is an antique.
His fun escapades don't sound too bad. Although I don't know how I would handle some of those same situations with Bennett. Thankfully she isn't brave enough to get off her "big girl bed" by herself in the dark yet.
Hilarious!! I absolutely laughed out loud. We've had a similar experience, though the scariest was when Rob woke up to Madeline unlocking the front door in the middle of the night and trying to go outside.... YIKES! We say it's like she's a freshman in college... :)
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