My baby…

Tonight there was a major change in our house…and I was totally unprepared, absolutely took me by surprise. J took the side of Puppy’s crib off…Puppy now sleeps in a toddler bed…

I was not prepared, I wasn’t ready — could I say it in a different way? I feel I needed to psych myself up for my baby, my youngest to not be in a crib anymore – more than just the second anyway.

All 4 kids were excited — J was excited, mostly that he wouldn’t have to get out of bed to get Puppy anymore…

I’m excited for Puppy too, he is a big boy, when Bob was his age, he was almost a big brother to two and in a big boy bed for a while…it helps put things in perspective…but alas, for the last time in Central, we took a crib side off to make a toddler bed…

I’m a little sad.

Number 4 and "the others never…."

We find ourselves saying “the others NEVER did that!” quite often after Puppy does something unexpected, or different — throwing us into the roll of first time parents, so to speak for each incident.

The first that comes to mind is our anniversary 2006 – Puppy bit a Nerf football — we found part of the piece and the football, and realized that there was still a piece missing. After a trip to the END to make sure he didn’t swallow a piece – they sent us to the radiologist for a barium swallow, as the ENT said with foam, ya just never know, it could be hiding somewhere…and low and behold, there on the screen during the barium swallow, was that little piece of foam being pushed down by that yucky barium – and probably pooped out at some point….that was a big “the others NEVER did that!”

Tonight – Puppy climbed out of his crib, TWICE!! I know, I know – He is 2.5 — and Lolo did that at 14 months — but “the others NEVER did that!” The second time he hurt his little toe — “da pinkie mommy, da little one – kiss it please” — ok Puppy but we don’t climb out of our criby – cause you can get hurt — “I know mommy! da pinkie got hurt!”

My sweet little boy — here’s to no more, the others never…