Dear, oh dear…

Yesterday was no fun… Taven stayed the night at Granny & Bakkaw’s with Winter & apparently he woke up half a dozen times that night… Then he was mad at us when we got there, so it took a while for him to warm back up to us. He didn’t want to take a nap that afternoon either… I figured that was because he thought we wouldn’t be there when he woke up. So he ended up throwing all kinds of tantrums because he was mad at us, but he really wanted us around. oy…

Then we went to the Hodge house & since Taven hadn’t had a nap he was a all over the place… Poor child didn’t know what to do with himself. Bradey also didn’t want to go down for a nap. Then we ended up eating dinner an hour after we expected, so Melisa was having a hard time with that, and I was just sneezing my head off (dog allergies) so I was miserable.

Of course no trip to the Hodge house is complete without some sort of confrontation, so Melisa decided to try & get some things off her chest with her parents when we were getting things ready to go… That didn’t go over so well…

Last night, I was in the kitchen at about 9:30PM and all of a sudden I hear one of the boys’ bedroom doors close… Bradey went to bed at 7:20-ish and Taven was put down about 9:15. I flip on the hall light & open up Taven’s door to see him flipping over the crib rail into his crib. That little stinker! He’s done this at nap time before, but this was the first time he’s done this at bed time.

Welp, we put together his Big-Boy-Bed today (no point in a crib if he won’t stay in it). He was all excited & didn’t take a nap. No amount of threatenings or spankings would keep him in that bed. At bed time it was the same story for almost an hour. We tried the above mentioned approach, then the silently tucking him back in (over & over), then went back to the spankings because the silently getting him back to bed became a game for him (how fast can I jump back in bed before they get to me).

Finally we decided that if we can’t hear him or see him from the living room, we’d leave him alone. That was about the time he was getting really tired, because we only heard his door shut one more time after that & I told him to go to bed (from the kitchen) & I think he finally passed out after that. I did check on him before going to bed & he was wrapped up in the sheets passed out cold (thank God!)

What a way to start the new year.