2 Mommies and 2 Boys

It appears that my life now revolves around facebook a little too much. Maybe the format is better for my ADD. Regardless, it is one of my resolutions to blog more. Since I’ve already broken several of my resolutions, I’m trying to hold onto the few I have left!

I just haven’t had a heck of a lot to write about lately. I mean, my life isn’t incredibly exciting. Maybe it is fun for me, but I can’t imagine anyone else trying to read about it.

So, I thought about writing about work.

Here is my first installment of that.

My day tomorrow will consist of a 2 hour conference call on a new transmission line project, review of title searches on 2 state-owned properties within an entirely different project, attempting to get out of a 10 yr old tenant-friendly lease for a landlord corporation that seems to be heading toward financial ruin, get a subdivision finalized for an old rubber factory by getting the town to take part of the property, reviewing maps from the 1890s and 1920s to try to determine the area of a property on a town line that was not clear established until 1988, review 3 different rights and restrictions matrices for project engineers, read a country club’s bylaws to prepare a memo how to resolve an access issue, prepare fund application for a municipal water main project, review engineer notes on “sliver” properties within new transmission corridor, prepare correspondence to landowner of tobacco farm re: impact of transmission lines on property, review conservation restrictions for nature conservancy versus eminent domain powers of utility…..if anyone is still reading, you deserve an f’ing medal.

I plan to top off my fun-filled day by calling my mortgage broker about refinancing my house and visiting the ob/gyn for an annual. Can you see why I haven’t been writing lately?

The good news is the very last item of my day is starting to cause me some unusual excitement. The ob/gyn appointment. Yes. Whoopie!
I’m hoping this appointment results is a green light to start TTCing as soon as we are ready!

When we get that green light, we can then have more conversations about how we have one of the most “spirited” children in the world and are we nuts for lining up for another one?!!?

Speaking of spirited children, guess who climbed out of his crib on Friday night?….

This goes hand in hand with the fact that we’ve totally and completely lost control of bed time (or any bed rules for that matter) in our house. This kid is falling asleep in our bed, placed in his crib, then waking up at 5 am only to come back in our bed again. It’s awful.

We tried to just let him cry it out and put our foot (feet? foot?) down about making him go down in his own bed. This kid screams like he’s being stabbed with a sharp object. And he doesn’t stop. One night, we were going to stand our ground and we stuck him in there and tried to close our ears. He screamed for an hour and 45 minutes. Non-stop. It was getting late and our condo neighbors were starting to slam doors when we finally couldn’t endure one more second.

We’ve tried music, night lights, no music, no night light, door open, door shut, stuffed animals, different blankets, reading before bed, getting a routine down. Nothing has worked.

Back to this Friday night. We decide it’s a weekend night, we’re going to try again. We read to him, give him a bottle (sigh, yes, he still take a bottle – we totally suck), etc. Tell him it’s time for night-night, etc. Lois gets into bed, we both kiss him goodnight and I bring him into his room kicking and screaming bloody murder the entire time. Once I leave his room, I close the door and climb into our bed across the hall.

By the time I have the remote in my hand, I realize the screaming is getting closer and his doorknob is rattling…what the f*ck?

Lo turns to me and says “you didn’t put him in his crib?”

Of course I did! How could he be at his door? It took me several seconds to figure it all out. The little son of a ….

We were so scared that he would do it again and fall 3 feet on his head, guess who slept with us Friday night?!!?

The next morning, I put him in his crib and watched him. He put his hands on his mattress and put his feet in the air, getting them up over the crib rail, pulling himself up with his legs and then sliding himself down the outside of the crib to the floor. He did all this in about 15 seconds. I was in shock.

After checking out crib tents on Sat. and getting advice from my FB friends, we decided to take the front panel off the convertible crib and make it a toddler bed. (I had some reservations about the crib tent based on how strong and determined this kid is). I bought a bed rail on Saturday night (trekking through the snow storm for one) and got him all set up.

Here’s the final result:

We’re trying to make a big deal out of the big boy bed and he loves climbing in and out of it and even hanging out in there. We put a gate on the top of the stairs, but I think I might put one across the door of his room instead. Plus, I’ll need to make sure all of the furniture is anchored to the wall.

A friend of mine has a fire engine bed for Shmoo but I thought he would be okay in this for now. This same friend suggested that we should just make the move to the toddler bed, totally different than the crib (since the crib will be converted back to a crib if we have another baby) and to make a big deal about letting him get new sheets too. I’m torn on this for now.

He’s still not going to sleep in his bed, but we’re taking it one day at a time. This is exhausting.

As for the obligatory pictures of the Shmoo, we did get some sledding in, even though the amount of snow we got this weekend was significantly over-predicted.