For a few months now, our Little Leah has been able to escape from her sleeping bag and crawl out of her crib...She can easily climb out and into her brothers bed, on the change table...really anything! I've found her on the stove, in the sink, on the Kitchen counters...and we've had to install a lock on our front door really high so that she can't escape outside! We thought for her own safety that it was time to switch her to a big girl bed...and we didn't think it was fair to switch one without the other....
We bought a Tinkerbell bed for Leah, and a Car bed for Blake...Since the room they share is fairly small we opted for the toddler bed size, we'll eventually have to move the girls together with bunkbeds...
The babies watched with excited anticipation for several hours of dismantling the cribs and assembling of the new beds, which was a pain in the butt... Blakes car bed didn't come with any hardware and Mama Leanna and Papa Murray who were there for the assembly, made a 8pm trip to Toys R us...When they got back home, Leah dropped a pretty important bolt down a hole in the frame that we couldn't get out...9:30pm and way past bedtime we threw in the towel and put his mattress on the floor...
What happened for the next few hours was a Party in their room...Jumping on the beds, climbing out...on and on and on...there was no sign of sleep so close to midnight we brough in the playpen for Blake who happily crawled in and went to sleep...Leah did end up sleeping in her bed for the whole night....
The next day we got the car bed fixed up and ready for nap time...and what happened over the next few hours was hands down the craziest few hours of parenting I have ever experienced...There were stickers ripped off the walls, blinds bent, their newborn picture above their change table was painted with diaper cream, the light kept being turned on, the closet was opened and all the nicely hung and folded clothes thrown every where...No less than 300 wipes shredded into tiny pieces, diapers everywhere...The destruction would happen in 2 minute intervals as I'd leave and give them a few minutes to try and settle themselves...They had no concept of what they were suppose to be doing...and while it sounds like I should have thought of these things before they happened believe me I did...they are just crafty enough to move the chair I had infront of the closet door out of the way and scale the shelves to things they shouldn't have been able to get! A thermometer dipped into the diaper cream as a paint brush...
Crafty Leah, very crafty!
Needless to say, I could not see this getting better any time soon, and had visions of this happening for hours on end through the night and for days to come...I literally almost lost my mind and even before Kirk arrived back home from work, the little toddler beds were in the basement and the cribs were reinstalled....
My sanity won the battle of the beds...Thankfully we haven't have any issues since...Leah can still crawl out and still does, we often find her in Blakes bed...I think we'll be keeping the cribs as long as humanly possible!!
The beds set up the first and only morning!
Pipsqueak in her "Binkerbell" Bed...
PAAARTTYY!!!
The 3 of them did look pretty cute all tucked into the car bed...
The only 2 seconds he stayed in his bed...
Their room looks awfully bare in these pictures...Its hard to imagine they could have found the trouble they did!!!
I would like to add for the record that Alyssa who is now 5 and been in a bed since she turned 2 has never once crawled out of her bed...EVER! She still to this day calls me when she wakes up to come and get her...
Oh no!! Little stinkers!!
ReplyDeleteI put locks on their closet doors & locks on their dresser drawers. There are some toys in there to distract them from the other stuff. But basically anything that isn't for their hands is locked up.